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Gov. Tate Reeves delivered the first State of the State address of his second term on Monday. Below is a transcript provided by the Republican governor’s staff. To rewatch the State of the State address in its entirety, scroll to the bottom of the article. Thank you, Lieutenant Governor Hosemann...

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Preliminary tests by a University of Nebraska road safety research facility and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers point to concerns that the nation’s roadside guardrails are no match for new heavy electric vehicles.

Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system.

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The Mobile Engineer District’s maintenance fleet arrived at Demopolis Lock on February 2 to begin a months-long repair project.

Sustainable dredging in rivers is the focus of a new paper published in the January 2024 issue of the WEDA Journal of Dredging.

Preliminary tests by a University of Nebraska road safety research facility and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers point to concerns that the nation’s roadside guardrails are no match for new heavy electric vehicles. At a news conference Wednesday, a university official said a first-of-its-kind test crash of a nearly 4-ton EV pickup truck last fall showed the guardrail did almost nothing to slow the truck. Cody Stolle with the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility says more extensive testing is p...

More weight means more energy in crashes, and that's a problem for the nation's roadside barriers