California’s long-embattled bullet train faces another dilemma. A new report released Friday by the California High-Speed Rail Authority warns that the scaled-down Central Valley segment — the only ...

California's dream of building a high-speed rail system linking San Francisco and LA is a cautionary tale of ambition outpacing funding, planning, and federal support. Reading time 9 minutes Seventeen ...

With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who sat on the state's high-speed rail peer review group, said "failure is ...

It's hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in ...