Kenora’s Moncrief Construction has been awarded the contract to twin a 6.5-kilometre stretch of the highway from the Ontario-Manitoba border to Highway 673.

Sector revenues grew by slightly less than 2 percent for the year, to $33.7 billion. Commercial, public and institutional building projects accounted for 17 percent of total sales that year.

The auto parts supplier has renewed its agreement with Ford to produce batter enclosures for the F-150 Lightning electric pick-up truck, and will expand its Chatham plant to accommodate.

Caron Equipment and Tisdale Mechanical Contracting received the money from the provincial government through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.

Coco Paving is receiving more than $50,000 in incentives from Enbridge Gas Inc. to support energy efficiency initiatives at their operations facility in Belleville, Ontario.