The Coast Guard's infrastructure repair and maintenance backlog has grown to at least $7 billion, a shortfall that government analysts say poses risks to personnel and operations. According to the ...

With a Great American Outdoors Act fund set to expire next year, a report suggests ways for the National Park Service to address its maintenance needs. The National Park Service’s maintenance backlog ...

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines on Thursday introduced a bill with bipartisan support that seeks to reauthorize a program to address billions in overdue maintenance at national parks, increase program funding ...

Hundreds of San Diego Unified classrooms suffered high temperatures during the recent heat wave due to failures in air conditioning — even after the district has gotten billions in voter-approved bond ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Two bipartisan bills are advancing out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, a branch of the U. S. Senate. The first -- to help reduce the growing maintenance backlog issue ...

WASHINGTON -- As a candidate, President Bush promised to eliminate a $5 billion construction backlog in national parks. Yet under his watch, the amount of unfinished maintenance may have doubled, ...

The backlog in maintaining crumbling schools, hospitals and prisons costs at least £49 billion but could be larger, a ...