A French high-speed train driver was killed on Tuesday and 16 people were injured when his locomotive slammed into a truck carrying military equipment at a railway crossing in northern France, local authorities said.
Far-left anarchist terrorists are suspected of a string of apparently coordinated sabotage attacks on Italian railway lines amid the opening of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
A high-speed train collision in southern Spain on Sunday has killed at least ten people and injured around one hundred, according to local reports.
California’s troubled high-speed rail project needs an additional $1 billion per year from the state legislature to survive, officials said Monday, after the withdrawal of $4 billion in funding by the Trump administration.
California’s high-speed rail line could connect rural Merced to Bakersfield by 2032, local authorities say, though it will operate at a massive loss.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had canceled $4 billion in federal funding for California’s beleaguered and delayed high-speed rail project — what critics call the “train to nowhere.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed Wednesday to spend $1 billion per year on the state’s failing high-speed rail project through cap-and-trade programs, even as his budget drowned in massive deficits.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) could never be elected president because of his failures on the costly, unfinished high-speed rail project and wildfires in his state.
A collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg left one person dead and 25 injured, six of them seriously, police said.
California’s long-delayed high-speed rail project has a new destination: Las Vegas.
President Joe Biden’s administration has awarded $6 billion in federal infrastructure spending to California for two high-speed rail projects — one, a failing public-sector effort by the state; the other, a private rail line from Southern California to Las Vegas.
PRAGUE (AP) – Two passenger trains collided in the south-west of the Czech Republic on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens of passengers.
Italians may be forced to present a vaccination passport to board high-speed trains as the government considers only allowing passengers with the pass to increase capacity.
President Joe Biden’s administration agreed Thursday to give nearly $1 billion in federal money back to California that President Donald Trump rescinded in 2019 after Governor Gavin Newsom canceled the state’s high-speed rail project.
California’s high-speed rail project is hoping President Joe Biden will restore nearly $1 billion yanked by the Trump administration.
Former Vice President Joe Biden mistakenly declared that a factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, was closing down — triggering panic among workers and forcing management to send a company-wide email reassuring employees that their jobs were not currently in danger.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state had to “sober up” about the fact that renewable energy sources had failed to provide enough power for the state at peak demand, and needed “backup” and “insurance” from other sources.
Former Vice President Joe Biden promised a “second great railroad revolution” as part of his climate change pitch on Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSPA) voted last week to proceed with the building of 119 miles of high-speed track in the San Joaquin Valley, despite the loss of federal funding for the project as a whole.
Former vice president Joe Biden is proposing to restore California’s now-defunct high-speed rail project — just months after Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled the plug, and President Donald Trump pulled the funding.
The State of California sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over the Federal Railroad Administration’s decision to cancel a nearly $1 billion grant for a high-speed railway that the state admits it no longer intends to build as planned.
The Trump administration followed through Thursday on its threat earlier this year to cancel a $929 billion grant that was meant to have funded high-speed rail rail in California.
The letter does not mention that the high-speed rail project was canceled last month because it would “cost too much … and take too long.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom praised President Donald Trump at an investor summit at Stanford University on Monday, saying the administration’s “Opportunity Zones” program could boost investment in low-income areas.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is frequently at odds with President Donald Trump, but told reporters Monday during a visit to Washington, DC, that he wanted to maintain a connection with the president in spite of it all.
Trump is bringing the rules of the private sector to California’s high-speed rail failure, and the state’s Democratic government may have no option but to pay up.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing lower-than-expected tax revenues, thanks to unexpectedly low sales tax revenues from legal marijuana, and the first implementation of the new federal cap on state on local tax (SALT) deductions.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it was canceling a federal grant to California worth nearly $1 billion after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the cancelation of the state’s high-speed rail project last week.
President Donald Trump continued to ridicule California for wasting billions of dollars on the failed fast train project.
“As I predicted, 16 cities, led mostly by Open Border Democrats and the Radical Left, have filed a lawsuit in, of course, the 9th Circuit! California,” Trump wrote.
California Governor Gavin Newsom responded Friday to President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border to build a physical barrier there: “California will see you in court.”
Trump on canceled bullet train: “They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars.” Gavin Newsom: “This is CA’s money.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday in his “State of the State” address at the California State Capitol in Sacramento that he would abandon the state’s high-speed rail system because it was too expensive.
An outline of the “Green New Deal” shows progressive Democrats hope to expand high-speed rail transportation across the U.S. to “a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.”
The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) surprised local communities on Wednesday by proposing a controversial Burbank-to-Palmdale route featuring above-ground tracks.
The Los Angeles Times points out Monday that Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic candidate for governor in November, has a long history of flip-flopping on the state’s major issues — a track record that may provide fodder for Republican rival John Cox.
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that California’s high-speed rail project still plans to meet its legal commitment to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2 hours and 40 minutes or less.
California Gov. Jerry Brown endorsed Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to take over his job after this year in a Democratic Party “unity” ceremony in Sacramento on Wednesday.
A new poll suggests that only 31% of registered voters in California want to keep paying for the California High-Speed Rail project, the “bullet train” that Gov. Jerry Brown sees as a major legacy project to fight climate change.
The top two Democrat candidates for California governor have been silent about the High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSR), even as its costs continue to rise.
