Once rail tracks gets laid next year, it will be “the point of no return,” says High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri.

High-speed rail is generally understood in the U.S. as reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour, although the Brightline West is averaging about half that speed.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority plans to downsize its massive Central Valley stations, including the downtown Fresno station, in an attempt to narrow the project’s focus on only ...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority plans to downsize its massive Central Valley stations, including the Merced station, in an attempt to narrow the project’s focus on only building ...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority plans to downsize its massive Central Valley stations, including the downtown Fresno station, in an attempt to narrow the project’s focus on only ...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority plans to downsize its massive Central Valley stations, including the Merced station, in an attempt to narrow the project’s focus on only building ...

California high-speed rail aspirations threaten to become a slow-motion train wreck. The political window to fund the first segment from Merced to Bakersfield appears to have come and gone. Ahead ...

Officials at the California High-Speed Rail Authority defended the project from a scathing federal audit they say is “an inaccurate, often outright misleading, presentation of the evidence ...

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed ...