...submitted bids that exceeded state engineers' estimate by more than $20 million. The Anchorage-based company Kiewit Pacific Co.'s bid totaled $51.5 million. Southeast Road Builders of Haines submitted $66.6 million. The project has...

...administration had a chance to first review it. The cancellation seemed to resolve a protest that had been filed by Kiewit Pacific Co., an Anchorage firm that contended that it was, in fact, the lower bidder. A lawsuit and subsequent appeal to...

...25.7 million, or $8 million per mile of dirt road for only a few private property owners on Gravina Island. Kiewit Pacific Co., a major campaign contributor to former Gov. Frank Murkowski, is constructing the "road to nowhere." Murkowski...