News last week that the state has sold the old Idaho Transportation Department headquarters property on State Street to developers brought up a question among some of us in the newsroom. What’s going ...

The cable-operated excavator is the earliest documented self-powered machine ever used to move earth. Its earliest form, the steam shovel, has roots going back to the very first mechanical excavator, ...

We never know what’s going to turn up around here. That’s how last’s month article, about a D9 on rubber tires, started. Here is something perhaps even stranger: A dragline and shovel version of a ...

Now that the state has sold the 44-acre site of the Idaho Transportation Department headquarters on State Street, what will become of the old steam shovel that’s housed there now? Scott ...