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 ...

A Photograph with a ¾ rear view of a rail-mounted steam shovel with its crew at work removing hillside. A large pile of dirty has already been built up, and a steam locomotive can be seen approaching ...

Our street was hectic and noisy for two months last summer as a storm drainage system was brought up to snuff. Hearing an at times steady vroom-vroom and ding-ding-ding, I wondered about the ...

A steam shovel found embedded in the bottom of Wixom Lake in October 2020 is well on its way to being fully restored. Mike Oberloier, of Beaverton, who now owns the shovel, recently displayed parts of ...

Much of the equipment, such as the steam shovels, used to build the Panama Canal were built in South Milwaukee. Trump made comments about retaking the Panama Canal during his 2025 inauguration, also ...

Each week, this series will share stories of our many wonderful people, places, products and programs in the greater Marion community. To read more stories of Marion’s great people, places, products, ...

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, ...

Mike Oberloier was 11 on an August day in 1975 and in a boat on Wixom Lake along with his older brother and dad searching for a steam-powered shovel that was said to be submerged at the bottom. The ...

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 ...