Reporters stood by waiting to catch a glimpse of Japan's fast high-speed train on the new Chuo Shinkansen rail line, and if any of them blinked, they missed it. Those who stayed focused on the track ...

For decades, the United States has imagined high-speed rail while nations like Japan, France and Spain simply built it, turning their bullet trains into symbols of efficiency and comfort. Beyond ...

An impassioned and oftentimes angry cohort from a small California city turned up ready for a fight this week in opposition to the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s proposal to bisect the town.

In China, the longest ultrahigh-voltage power line stretches more than 2,000 miles from the far northwest to the populous southeast — the equivalent of transmitting electricity from Idaho to New York ...

Steve Forbes breaks down why California’s endless high-speed rail boondoggle is even worse than people think, and why it needs to be scrapped—yesterday. California’s misbegotten high-speed train ...

The High-Speed Rail Authority CEO has made changes to the agency in the past year. Project needs faster permitting, eminent domain rulings and strong state funding. Central Valley line set for 2032, ...

California's troubled high-speed rail project has received a new financial lifeline. Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a deal with state lawmakers for $1 billion in funding each year through 2045, which is ...

Seventeen years ago, Californians bet on a grand vision of the future. They narrowly approved a $10 billion bond issue to build a high-speed rail line that would zip between San Francisco and Los ...

Connecting to Gilroy and Palmdale yields highest revenue and cost recovery ratios. Merced-Bakersfield segment will fail to cover its operating costs. State law changes could enable rail expansion to ...

State leaders are speaking out on California's High-Speed Rail system. Taxpayer dollars have been going into this high-speed rail train project for over a decade, but now the project is estimated to ...

A South Bay lawmaker is making a new push to try and keep California’s high-speed rail project from getting derailed. The new push comes even as the president has said he’s pulling federal funding ...

The update also showed that the plan may no longer include a Merced-Bakersfield line. Merced could be cut out in favor of Gilroy, meaning that Merced officials have wasted years planning for a project ...