Infrastructure

Trump Sewage Leak Infrastructure
Workers build a cofferdam to stop the flow of raw sewage into the Potomac River after a massive sewage pipe rupture in Glen Echo, Md., Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Envirnoment

Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of US infrastructure problems

MARCH 20, 2026

Ferry Dock Deaths Georgia
FILE - The sun rises over Sapelo Island, Ga., a Gullah-Geechee community, on June 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Infrastructure

AP scores scoops on deadly collapse of gangway at Sapelo Island

NOV. 1, 2024

Long Trains Dangers
FILE - Los Angeles skyline is seen above the Union Pacific LATC Intermodal Terminal is seen on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Infrastructure

Railroads and regulators must address the dangers of long trains, report says

SEPT. 17, 2024

Dam Removals Infrastructure Spending
The Shulls Mill Dam in Boone, North Carolina, is removed as part of a national effort to restore habitats across the United States.

Dams

Federal infrastructure funding is fueling a push to remove dams and restore river habitat

AUG. 16, 2024

Peru Amazon Bridge to Nowhere
A highway bridge that is part of a federal highway project, extends across the Nanay River, background, as a resident walks along a boarded path in the Punchana district of Iquitos, Peru, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Construction work is at a standstill as the government conducts a study of the area, but the Ministry of Transportation has already built what is the country's largest bridge, which extends 2.3 kilometers (1.4 miles) over the Nanay, a tributary of the Amazon River. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Infrastructure

AP makes rare photos of Amazonian “bridge to nowhere” and its communities 

JUNE 28, 2024

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Salvage work continues on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, April 2, 2024, in Baltimore. AP PHOTO / JULIA NIKHINSON

Disaster response

AP scoop raises questions about communication and worker safety before Baltimore bridge collapse

APRIL 12, 2024

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In a long-exposure photo made May 25, 2022, traffic drives past a makeshift memorial for Samara Banks and her three children who were struck and killed by a car in 2013 on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia. The Boulevard, sometimes called “the corridor of death,” is among the highly dangerous traffic areas in communities of color throughout the U.S. suffering from disproportionately high rates of vehicle fatalities and poor infrastructure. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke)

Infrastructure

Beyond the numbers, AP puts faces to the disparity in road fatalities for communities of color

JUNE 10, 2022

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Dams

AP Investigation: At least 1,680 aging US dams pose a risk to thousands

NOV. 15, 2019

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Construction is underway on a piling of the Red Bridge pedestrian bridge over the Des Moines River in Des Moines, Iowa., March 28, 2017 A little more than a decade after it was restored, crews went back to the site with a crane to hoist the span more than 4 feet higher, at a cost of $3 million, after experts concluded that the river's flooding risk was double the previous estimates. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Climate

Only on AP: Countless inland bridges being raised to prepare for climate change floods

JUNE 15, 2017

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