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| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basis of presentation | The accompanying consolidated interim financial statements were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Interim financial statements do not include all disclosures provided in annual financial statements and, accordingly, these financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K (Annual Report). The information is unaudited but includes adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the accompanying consolidated interim financial statements and are of a normal recurring nature. All revenues and costs, as well as assets and liabilities, directly associated with our business activities are included in the consolidated financial statements. General corporate expenses are included in the Consolidated Statements of Operations within selling, general and administrative expenses and other income. On March 7, 2025, we acquired Strata Corporation (Strata), a leading construction materials and contracting services provider in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The purchase price for Strata totaled $454.0 million and was subject to post-closing adjustments. The results of operations and balance sheet accounts for Strata are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition. In December 2025, we reclassified our retention receivables of $42.8 million on a contract-by-contract basis from accounts receivable. The reclassification resulted in an increase to contract assets of $31.8 million and a decrease to contract liabilities of $11.0 million. This reclassification was due to FASB’s clarification of retention receivables under ASC 606 and was applied on a prospective basis. Prior years quarters were not revised. Management has also evaluated the impact of events occurring after March 31, 2026, up to the date of issuance of these consolidated interim financial statements on May 5, 2026, that would require recognition or disclosure in the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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| Principles of consolidation | Principles of consolidation For all periods, the audited consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP and include the accounts of Knife River and our wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions between our businesses have been eliminated in the accompanying audited consolidated financial statements.
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| Use of estimates | Use of estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, at the date of the consolidated financial statements, as well as the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Estimates are used for items such as long-lived assets and goodwill; fair values of acquired assets and liabilities under the acquisition method of accounting; aggregate reserves; property depreciable lives; tax provisions; revenue recognized using the cost-to-cost measure of progress for contracts; expected credit losses; environmental and other loss contingencies; costs on contracting services contracts; actuarially determined benefit costs; asset retirement obligations; present value of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities; and the valuation of stock-based compensation. These estimates are based on management’s best knowledge of current events, historical experience, actions that we may undertake in the future and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. As additional information becomes available, or actual amounts are determinable, the recorded estimates are revised. Consequently, operating results can be affected by revisions to prior accounting estimates.
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| Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash We consider all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less, when purchased, to be cash and cash equivalents. Restricted cash represents deposits held by our captive insurance company that is required by state insurance regulations to remain in the captive insurance company.
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| Seasonality of operations | Seasonality of operations Some of our operations are seasonal and revenues from, and certain expenses for, such operations may fluctuate significantly among quarterly periods, with lower activity in the winter months and higher activity in the summer months. Accordingly, the interim results for particular segments, and for Knife River as a whole, may not be indicative of results for the full fiscal year or other future periods.
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| New accounting standards | The following table provides a brief description of the accounting pronouncements applicable to us and the potential impact on our consolidated financial statements and/or disclosures:
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| Expected credit loss | Receivables consist primarily of trade and contract receivables for the sale of goods and services net of expected credit losses. A majority of our receivables are due in 30 days or less. Our expected credit losses are determined through a review using historical credit loss experience; changes in asset specific characteristics; current conditions; and reasonable and supportable future forecasts, among other specific account data, and is performed at least quarterly. We develop and document our methodology to determine our allowance for expected credit losses. Risk characteristics used by management may include customer mix, knowledge of customers and general economic conditions of the various local economies, among others. Specific account balances are written off when management determines the amounts to be uncollectible.
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| Inventories | Inventories are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value using the average cost method. Inventories include production costs incurred as part of our aggregate mining activities. These inventoriable production costs include all mining and processing costs associated with the production of aggregates. Stripping costs incurred during the production phase, which represent costs of removing overburden and waste materials to access mineral deposits, are a component of inventoriable production costs.
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| Net loss per share | Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the applicable period. Diluted earnings per share is computed by dividing net loss by the total of the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the applicable period, plus the effect of non-vested performance shares and restricted stock units. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disaggregation of revenue | Revenue is recognized when a performance obligation is satisfied by transferring control over a product or service to a customer. Revenue includes revenue from the sales of construction materials and contracting services. Revenue is measured based on consideration specified in a contract with a customer and excludes any sales incentives and amounts collected on behalf of third parties. We are considered an agent for certain taxes collected from customers. As such, we present revenues net of these taxes at the time of sale to be remitted to governmental authorities, including sales and use taxes. Revenue for construction materials is recognized at a point in time when delivery of the products has taken place. Contracting services revenue is recognized over time using an input method based on the cost-to-cost measure of progress on a project. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fair value measurements | We measure our investments in certain fixed-income and equity securities at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in income. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business segment data | We focus on the vertical integration of our products and services by offering customers a single source for construction materials and related contracting services. We operate in 15 states across the United States through our four operating segments: West, Mountain, Central and Energy Services, each of which is also a reportable segment. Each segment’s performance is evaluated based on segment results without allocating corporate expenses, which include corporate costs associated with accounting, legal, treasury, business development, information technology, human resources, and other corporate expenses that support the operating segments. Three of our reportable segments are aligned by key geographic areas due to the production of construction materials and related contracting services and one is based on product line. Each segment is led by a segment manager who reports to our chief operating officer, who is also our chief operating decision maker, along with the chief executive officer. Our chief operating decision maker uses EBITDA to evaluate the performance of the segments, perform analytical comparisons to budget and uses historical and projected EBITDA to allocate resources, including capital allocations. Each geographic segment offers a vertically integrated suite of products and services, including aggregates, ready-mix concrete, asphalt and contracting services, while the Energy Services segment produces and supplies liquid asphalt, primarily for use in asphalt road construction, and is a supplier to some of the other segments. Each geographic segment mines, processes and sells construction aggregates (crushed stone and sand and gravel); produces and sells asphalt; and produces and sells ready-mix concrete as well as vertically integrating its contracting services to support the aggregate-based product lines including heavy-civil construction, asphalt and concrete paving, and site development and grading. Although not common to all locations, the geographic segments also sell cement, merchandise and other building materials and related services. Corporate Services represents the unallocated costs of certain corporate functions, such as accounting, legal, treasury, business development, information technology, human resources and other corporate expenses that support the operating segments. Corporate Services also includes an immaterial amount of external revenue from the Knife River Training Center. We account for intersegment sales and transfers as if the sales or transfers were to third parties. The accounting policies applicable to each segment are consistent with those used in the audited consolidated financial statements.
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| Commitments and contingencies | We are party to claims and lawsuits arising out of our business and that of our consolidated subsidiaries, which may include, but are not limited to, matters involving property damage, personal injury, and environmental, contractual and statutory obligations. We accrue a liability for those contingencies when the incurrence of a loss is probable, and the amount can be reasonably estimated. If a range of amounts can be reasonably estimated and no amount within the range is a better estimate than any other amount, then the minimum of the range is accrued. We do not accrue liabilities when the likelihood that the liability has been incurred is probable, but the amount cannot be reasonably estimated or when the liability is believed to be only reasonably possible or remote. For contingencies where an unfavorable outcome is probable or reasonably possible and which are material, we disclose the nature of the contingency and, in some circumstances, an estimate of the possible loss. Accruals are based on the best information available, but in certain situations management is unable to estimate an amount or range of a reasonably possible loss, including, but not limited to, when: (1) the damages are unsubstantiated or indeterminate, (2) the proceedings are in the early stages, (3) numerous parties are involved, or (4) the matter involves novel or unsettled legal theories.
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