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Gavin Newsom has signed a bill requiring the rail authority to elaborate a funding path for the Merced to Bakersfield segment ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has no clue what functional government looks like. California just spent 16 years and $15 billion to ...
Brian Brenberg of Fox Business News sarcastically asked, "Who wants to go to Merced?” when discussing California's high-speed rail. project.
CEO of Kleinheinz Capital Partners, the main backer of the high-speed rail project in Texas, writes about the status of this ...
Barack Obama hailed the promise of high-speed rail and Democrats approved billions of dollars of funds for the project as part of his economic stimulus program in 2009. As other s ...
Andy Byford, the former president of the New York City Transit Authority better known as New York City’s “Train Daddy,” has a new job as special advisor to the Amtrak Board of Directors for the ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Electronic devices holding thousands of files that contained child pornography were seized from a southwest Bakersfield home on Thursday, and a 43-year-old man was taken ...
A Connecticut gas station owner who called police about an escaped New Hampshire inmate said it was clear something wasn't right about him when he walked into the business.
The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a crash that possibly involved a pedestrian on Chester Avenue at 25th Street, according to an Eyewitness News ...
Joseph H. “Joe” Campbell, a respected farmer credited with helping build the Central Valley’s table grape industry, died last Thursday at age 81 from COVID-19 complications, his family said.
A former Amtrak employee from Riverside County was sentenced Thursday to just over two years in prison for conspiring with her husband to steal nearly $1 million in pandemic-related unemployment ...
A southbound BNSF manifest prepares to duck under a California High Speed Rail Authority bridge carrying Avenue 17 south of Madera, Calif. on Jan. 22, 2025. The Federal Railroad Administration has ...