Coverage of the Department of Transportation and everything related to the nation's infrastructure.
More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike.
California lawmakers confronting the changing definition of work have approved sweeping legislation designed to give many contract workers new pay and benefit protections, but tech giants Uber and Lyft vowed to keep fighting the changes, possibly by bankrolling an expensive fight on the 2020 ballot.
Lawmakers and officials from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties have asked Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn to release to Metro more than $50 million that he is withholding because of “an ongoing pattern of fiscal obfuscation and a lack of cooperation” at the regional transit agency.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to issue a security alert Tuesday for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft.
Four major automakers have reached a deal with California to increase gas mileage and greenhouse gas emissions standards, bypassing the Trump administration’s push to freeze requirements at 2021 levels.
Nissan is slashing 12,500 jobs or about 9% of its global workforce to cut costs and achieve a turnaround amid tumbling profits, the Japanese automaker said Thursday.
Democrats plan to tackle infrastructure after the August recess, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer told reporters on Wednesday.
Volvo Cars is recalling about half a million cars worldwide because of a faulty engine component that may in extreme cases cause a vehicle to catch a fire.
Two Southwest Airlines planes have collided on the tarmac of Nashville International Airport.
Ohio has opened the country’s largest test track for driverless vehicles, complete with Teslas swerving through intersections, headfirst collisions and cheering engineers.
In recent years, Detroit automakers have been at relative peace with the United Auto Workers union because times have been good and profit-sharing checks have been fat.
More passengers are describing the harrowing incident with violent turbulence that diverted an Air Canada flight to Honolulu Thursday.
A passenger train rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 78 others, hospital officials said.
Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It’s the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning the eight decades since 1938.
Citing climate-damaging tailpipe emissions, 23 U.S. governors signed a pledge backing California leaders in their showdown with the Trump administration over its plans to relax vehicle mileage standards .
U.S. freight trains have been growing up to three miles long, creating lengthy delays at railroad crossings for emergency responders and raising concerns about potential derailments, according to federal auditors.
Boeing said Wednesday that it will provide an “initial investment” of $100 million over several years to help families and communities affected by two crashes of its 737 Max plane that killed 346 people.
A stowaway fell from the undercarriage of a jet as it approached Heathrow Airport after a 9-hour flight from Nairobi, landing in a south London garden, police and airline officials said Monday.
The Transportation Security Administration plans to send more than 650 airport screeners and federal air marshals to beef up protection along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A man who was involved in a terrifying 2016 skydiving accident on the same plane that crashed and killed 11 people in Hawaii on Friday says he wishes he could have done more to prevent the tragedy.
Retired pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger told a congressional panel Wednesday that pilots should practice the failure of Boeing flight-control software on simulators, not planes full of passengers.
Boeing executives apologized Monday to airlines and families of victims of 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as the U.S. plane maker struggles to regain the trust of regulators, pilots and the global traveling public.
Rep. Sean Maloney said Wednesday he is beginning investigations into Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao after two separate reports found evidence she may be using her position to benefit her family’s shipping company and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
A helicopter crash-landed on the roof a midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday, killing the pilot, authorities said.
House defense lawmakers are banning the Pentagon from accepting any new detainees to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and denying the White House’s $88 million request to build a new detainee prison at the naval base.
A Las Vegas woman has sued the Transportation Security Administration after she says they made her strip down in Oklahoma before a flight back to Nevada, KTNV reports.
Uber is going airborne with the ride-hailing company’s latest expansion by soon offering helicopter service to and from New York City’s busiest airport.
Health officials in northern Virginia are warning the public about potential exposure to measles after a child in the region contracted the illness.
U.S. city officials increasingly are trying to find their own ways to repair roads, build bridges, improve sewers and provide communications amid squabbling among federal officials over funding a $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
President Trump deleted a tweet flubbing the progress of a $19.1 billion bipartisan disaster relief bill that passed the House Monday, leading to ridicule from Democrats.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a right-wing provocateur who had sought to post throughout Metro advertisements depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Democrats in Washington are increasingly antsy to begin impeachment of President Trump — but voters back home seemed to have plenty of other things on their minds over the last week.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday signed a “historic” overhaul of Michigan’s car insurance system that, beginning in 13 months, will let drivers choose their medical coverage instead of them being required to buy unlimited benefits.
The Boeing 737 Max jet that was grounded after two deadly crashes will not fly before mid-August at the earliest, the global airline trade group said Wednesday.
Fiat Chrysler proposed on Monday to merge with France’s Renault to create the world’s third-biggest automaker and combine forces in the race to make new electric and autonomous vehicles.
Imagine driving from Tokyo all the way to Paris. It sounds crazy, but that’s just what some of the world’s top international investors say could one day become reality — if the North Korean nuclear crisis ever gets resolved.
President Trump told Democratic leaders Tuesday night that he wants Congress to approve his new trade deal with Canada and Mexico before he’ll agree to a plan of up to $2 trillion for rebuilding infrastructure.
Rep. Rob Woodall said he got the “shivers” when he heard President Trump promise Democratic leaders last month that he’ll come up with $2 trillion to spend on infrastructure.
The U.S. has reached a deal to lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico, removing a major barrier to congressional approval of President Trump’s revised trade deal with the countries.
President Trump announced Friday that he’s delaying a decision for up to six months on whether to impose tariffs on imported cars and auto parts from Europe and elsewhere, based on his administration’s findings that the imports pose a national security threat.
The Trump administration cancelled nearly $1 billion in federal money for California’s high-speed rail project Thursday, further throwing into question the future of the ambitious plan to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash with a semitrailer in Florida March 1 was operating on the company’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system, federal investigators have determined.
A state panel has unanimously approved a request from a northern Virginia county to rename a highway that currently honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft have significantly contributed to roads around San Francisco becoming more congested, researchers wrote in a recent report.
A team of federal accident investigators is expected to arrive in Alaska Tuesday to try to piece together what caused a deadly midair collision between two sightseeing planes.
Uber began trading as a public company at $42 per share Friday, nearly 7% below its initial public offering price on an already volatile day for the markets.
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders said Wednesday he supports a nationwide driver strike against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft.
Drivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are planning to turn off their apps to protest what they say are declining wages at a time when both companies are raking in billions of dollars from investors.
Russian emergency workers have recovered 41 bodies and two flight recorders from the wreckage of a plane that caught fire during an emergency landing in Moscow, officials said Monday as they sought to discover the cause of the disaster.
U.S. Steel will invest more than $1 billion on state-of-the-art facilities in western Pennsylvania that it says will improve its steelmaking efficiency and reduce emissions at its Mon Valley Works operations, the company said Thursday.
A unanimous Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to pave the way for companies like Uber and Lyft to deploy fleets of driverless vehicles. But safety advocates say the Sunshine State’s rush to regulate self-driving cars is adding to a nationwide patchwork of conflicting rules amid an absence of federal guidelines.
Democratic leaders and President Trump agreed to the concept of a $2 trillion infrastructure plan Tuesday — but not how to pay for it — during a White House meeting that lacked any mention of Democrats’ investigations or push for impeachment.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer will return to the White House on Tuesday with several other top Democrats to discuss a costly infrastructure package with Mr. Trump, perhaps the best hope for a big, bipartisan jobs bill this year.
Four people were killed and three injured when a construction crane collapsed Saturday in downtown Seattle, pinning six cars underneath, Seattle’s fire chief said.
