A long ride through California’s Central ... But the planned route for high-speed rail is a diagonal squiggle, as if someone dropped a length of yarn on the map. “Farming here is all squares ...

A map showing California's proposed high-speed rail network from February 2021. The initial operating segment, between Merced and Bakersfield, is expected to begin services between 2030 and 2033.

(For more background on some of those challenges, revisit Ralph Vartabedian’s deep dive from 2022 into why California’s long-planned high-speed rail project has been so troubled.) In an ...

A recent forecast warned that "most" wildfire activity in California is expected later in the year as the state continues its recovery from the devastating Los Angeles County fires in January.

Porter, who represented California in the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025, is one of the only major Democrats to explicitly oppose the high-speed rail project. She said in an interview on ...

Illinois is studying high-speed rail to link cities like Chicago and St. Louis as the federal government reviews California's ...

The Trump administration will not fund California's high-speed rail project due to cost overruns, the President said. The project, initially estimated at $33 billion, has ballooned to over $100 ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government would not finance California’s high-speed rail project, escalating tensions over the state’s long-delayed infrastructure plan.

California’s High Speed Rail project may soon face a $10.2 billion budget gap, even larger than what lawmakers expected two ...

SACRAMENTO — While speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Trump slammed California's costly high-speed rail project and challenged Gov. Gavin Newsom to run for president.