Growing up, Glenn Vollmer was surrounded by equipment. Whether it was being around his dad’s farm equipment or his brother's excavating business, those days spent operating equipment were instrumental ...

Snohomish County has started on its to-do list of summer paving and chip seal roadwork. It’s about a month ahead of last year’s work, due to an increased list of 2017 patchwork jobs that need initial ...

The in basket: John Ward is unhappy with the chip sealing of Rova Road in North Kitsap, on which he lives. “They redid a part of Sawdust Hill but didn't chip seal,” he said. “I got the impression from ...

The in basket: Kitsap County seems to be in a bit of an uprising over the durability of recent chip seal paving, in which crushed rock is laid down on a bed of oil and allowed to set in the oil to ...

HOT SPRINGS -- Garland County no longer has a use for chip-and-seal paving materials as it prepares to make greater use of paving methods that promise improved road durability. Chips sitting idle at ...

Larry Payne believes the reasons for paving failures on Cape Girardeau County roads need to be identified. Speaking as chairman of the county's road and bridge advisory board, Payne told county ...

Chip-and-seal paving has begun in Cape Girardeau County, more than a year after first being proposed as a money saving alternative to asphalt. County Road 273, which stretches for 1.3 miles south from ...

MUSKEGON -- The Muskegon County Road Commission is set to begin its annual road-preservation project, using tar and cover with crushed stones -- a process called chip-seal paving -- on various ...

Not to be outdone by ODOT, Multnomah County has issued a special notice about upcoming chip seal work. This is particularly important for people who ride because the county happens to manage very ...

City Public Works officials said Tuesday they are not giving up on chip seal paving despite a barrage of complaints about initial use of the method that finally caused Mayor Ron Littlefield to call a ...