The German government is considering whether it can force a former transport minister to pay at least part of the €243m bill for a failed plan to introduce highway tolls,…

A subsidiary of China Railway Group has won a contract to build the headquarters of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in Tanzania, the East African newspaper reports.…

The former president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from a non-union…

This article contains language and references to actions that some readers may find distressing. Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting Company has settled a lawsuit with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)…

Six construction companies and eight individuals have been charged with fraud and corruption in the New York area following a wide-ranging investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney. The indictment charges…

The owner of a US contractor has pleaded guilty to bribery, conspiracy, and identity theft carried out over a quarter-century while working for the US government. Sina Moayedi, 67, the…

A subcontractor working on the Hanford nuclear site in Washington State has been indicted by a grand jury over accusations that he fraudulently obtained a Covid relief loan of $1.4m.…

The owner of a contractor in California was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison and fined almost $1m after pleading guilty to bribing a state official with $800,000, as well…

A Chinese construction supervisor at the Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan has been arrested on blasphemy charges after a crowd assembled to protest over alleged remarks he made that workers…

A US military contractor was sentenced this week to three years and 10 months in prison for accepting bribes from an Afghan contractor. Orlando Clark, 57, of Smyrna in Georgia,…

Six people have been charged as a result of “Operation Wrecking Ball”, an investigation by Los Angeles’ Lafayette Police Department, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the District Attorney’s Office.…

An investigation into bid-rigging in the insulation contracting industry in the US state of Connecticut saw its seventh and final defendant jailed for 15 months on Friday. Michael S. Flynn…

Authorities in Turkey have begun targeting contractors after last week’s catastrophic earthquakes destroyed some 25,000 buildings in southern Turkey and northeastern Syria, leading to the combined deaths of at least…

A new law came into effect this month in New York State that raises the maximum fine levied on contractors who cause death or serious injury by negligence from $10,000…

A Canadian First Nation community is seeking damages against Quebec’s state-owned utility for the destruction of its land caused by the construction of a dam in Labrador some 50 years…

Police in Canada have charged a company with criminal negligence after a car accident at a construction site killed six young people. The incident took place in the southern Ontario…

Belt Construction Inc, a contractor based in Arkansas, has been fined $287,150 after two employees asphyxiated while working in a confined space. One lost consciousness in a sewer 20ft below…