PETE BUTTIGIEG

The Biden administration has awarded $1.4 billion to projects improving railway safety and boosting rail capacity.

Small-scale, tech-based solutions to transportation problems have emerged as a great equalizer in the battle for infrastructure dollars between big cities and rural communities.

Vice President Kamala Harris has left Washington for Indonesia, where she'll attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.

Delta Air Lines says it has upgraded its entire fleet to protect the planes against radio interference from wireless signals.

The major freight railroads say a disagreement over whether they will be allowed to discipline some workers who use a government hotline to report safety concerns has kept them from following through on the promise they made back in March to join the program after a fiery Ohio derailment prompted calls for reforms.

Federal regulators are proposing a series of rules changes aimed at toughening safety requirements for millions of miles of gas distribution pipelines nationwide following a string of gas explosions in Massachusetts in 2018.

The Biden administration has announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through.

President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah next week and is expected to talk about his administration’s efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures.

Extreme weather conditions enveloped the U.S. Monday as the East Coast recovered from flooding, sizzling temperatures beset the West and several northern states contended with unsafe air quality from Canadian wildfires.

Airline passengers who have endured tens of thousands of weather-related flight delays this week got a welcome respite from the headaches Saturday, despite concerns about possible disruptions being caused by new wireless 5G systems rolling out near major airports.

The CEO of United Airlines is apologizing for jumping on a private plane this week while thousands of his airline's customers were stranded because their flights got canceled.

Air travelers are dealing with another day of widespread flight disruptions, even though the weather has been better along much of the East Coast.

Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr and legislative researcher Erin Reed have emerged as a power couple spreading hope to fellow transgender people.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero- and low-emission buses.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning airlines to be ready when wireless companies power up their 5G service next month.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says an American push to establish “green shipping corridors” is key to reducing carbon emissions from the shipping industry.

The 2024 Republican presidential field is full of long-shot candidates.

President Joe Biden is taking an aerial tour of the collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia and plans to meet with first responders and workers involved in rebuilding the critical stretch of highway along the East Coast.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site in Philadelphia where an out-of-control tractor-trailer hauling gasoline flipped over on an off-ramp, caught fire and destroyed a section of the East Coast’s main north-south highway.

The Federal Aviation Administration has another acting leader at the controls.

The top U.S. transportation official says Tesla shouldn’t call its partially automated driving system Autopilot because the cars can’t drive themselves.

The Biden administration is starting work on new regulations that it says will expand the rights of airline passengers.

The federal agency that regulates pipelines has announced new rules aimed at reducing leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from a network of nearly 3 million miles of natural gas pipelines that crisscross the country.

Congressional investigators say airlines themselves are responsible for a rising percentage of canceled flights — more often than before the pandemic, when bad weather was the most common problem.

A bipartisan congressional group from Nevada and California is asking the Biden administration to fast-track federal funds for a private company to build a high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area.

The number of people killed on U.S. roadways decreased slightly last year, but government officials say the almost 42,795 people who died is still a national crisis.

Southwest Airlines says planes are taking off again after departures were held up because of what the airline calls an intermittent technical problem.

Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and sometimes leaking natural gas pipelines across the country.

Banks will need to start reporting the demographics and income of small business loan applicants under new rules published by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s choice to run the Federal Aviation Administration has withdrawn his nomination.

The husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttgieg says he hasn’t heard from Mike Pence in the days since the former vice president mocked his family.

The federal government has announced $2.5 billion in grants to fund the construction of EV charging stations and alternative fueling infrastructure, aiming in part at increasing access in underserved neighborhoods.

Federal investigators have announced a special investigation into railroad Norfolk Southern.

The government is rolling out a new “dashboard” that lets travelers see which which airlines let families with young children sit together on flights at no extra cost.

President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment that has morphed into a political controversy.

The White House is calling on congressional Republicans to increase the fines levied on rail companies for safety violations in the wake of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

The crew operating a freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, didn’t get much warning before dozens of cars went off the tracks, and there is no indication that crew members did anything wrong.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act to improve safety while regulators try to strengthen safety rules in the wake of a fiery derailment in Ohio that forced evacuations when toxic chemicals were released and burned.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning the CEO of Norfolk Southern that the freight rail company must “demonstrate unequivocal support for the people” of East Palestine, Ohio, and surrounding areas.

The Biden administration is defending its response to a freight train derailment in Ohio that left toxic chemicals spilled or burned off, even as local leaders and members of Congress demanded that more be done.

President Joe Biden will use his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to remind Americans of how their lives have been improved over his first two years in office, as he tries to navigate the tricky politics of a newly divided Washington.

Nearly 50 businesses and nonprofits including rideshare companies Uber and Lyft and industrial giant 3M are pledging millions of dollars in initiatives to stem a crisis in road fatalities under a new federal effort.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been in the national spotlight a lot lately, and not always for positive reasons.

Airline executives are pushing Congress and the White House to step up funding for the Federal Aviation Administration after a technology failure briefly grounded flights around the country this week.

U.S. air travel has returned mostly to normal, a day after a computer system that sends safety information to pilots broke down and grounded traffic from coast to coast.

Until Wednesday, few travelers had heard of a Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM.

Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed after a system that offers safety information to pilots failed.

Southwest Airlines says a winter storm and technology breakdown over the holidays will cost it up to $825 million.

With its flights running on a roughly normal schedule, Southwest Airlines is now turning its attention to repairing its damaged reputation after it canceled 15,000 flights around Christmas and left holiday travelers stranded.

Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow has announced she won't run for a fifth term in 2024.

Southwest Airlines is returning to a relatively normal flight schedule as the focus shifts to making things right with what could be well more than a million passengers who missed family connections or flights home during the holidays, and many of whom are still missing luggage.

No sooner had President Joe Biden told Democrats his preference for reordering the presidential primary calendar than states began balking.

The Iowa caucuses and their outsize importance have largely been an exercise in myth-making.

Legislation to avert a freight rail strike in the United States is headed to President Joe Biden's desk.

The holiday travel rush is already on, and it could spread out over more days than usual this year.

Frontier Airlines and four foreign carriers are paying more than $600 million in refunds to consumers whose flights were canceled or significantly delayed since the start of the pandemic.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Democrat Mandela Barnes are honing closing arguments in a Wisconsin race that could be critical in which party controls the U.S. Senate.

Two right-wing operatives have pleaded guilty in Cleveland to single felony counts of telecommunications fraud for having placed thousands of hoax robocalls in Ohio during the runup to the 2020 general election.

Delta Air Lines is posting a $695 million profit for the third quarter, which includes much of the peak summer travel season.

The White House is hosting a summit to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure law.

Women are gathering across Michigan to strategize how to preserve abortion rights in their state.

All 50 states have received final approval to begin construction on a first nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations that places one roughly every 50 miles along interstate highways.

The number of people killed on U.S. roadways fell slightly from April through June, the first decline in two years.

A plan to dismantle a 1-mile-long depressed freeway that was built in Detroit by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago is a big winner of federal money.

When it came time to showcase its electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV to the public this year, General Motors decided against doing so at the big Detroit auto show, as it typically would have done in the past.

The Department of Transportation has launched a customer service dashboard to help vacationers ahead of the travel-heavy Labor Day weekend.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is telling airlines to do a better job of helping stranded travelers or they will face new regulations.

Numerous transportation projects across the U.S. will be getting a slice of $2.2 billion of new federal funding.

The federal government is proposing tougher rules for when airlines must give passengers refunds for changing their travel plans.

Political divides in the U.S. seem deeper than ever, but one of the few shared sentiments right now from voters of all stripes is the desire for something different.

The summer is off to a profitable start for Delta Air Lines.

The Biden administration says it'll spend nearly $1 billion to upgrade airports around the country.

The fireworks are still a few days away, but travel for the July Fourth weekend is off to a booming start.

If you're flying this holiday weekend, be prepared for crowded airports, full planes, and higher-than-normal chances that your flight will be delayed or even canceled.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is launching a $1 billion pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects.

With an eye on the upcoming July Fourth weekend, airlines are stepping up their criticism of federal officials over recent widespread flight delays and cancellations.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he's pushing airlines to hire more customer-service agents and take other steps to help travelers this summer.

It's turning into another difficult day for airline travelers in the United States.

Airlines are canceling more than 1,500 flights across the U.S. in one of the worst days yet in the summer travel season.

President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden host a reception celebrating Pride Month at the White House.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order to stymie what the White House says are discriminatory legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community by Republican-controlled states.

Iowa Democrats are hoping to salvage their leadoff presidential selection position with two key changes to increase participation and avoid the chaos that marred their 2020 caucuses.

Black communities have been hit especially hard amid a national surge in traffic fatalities.

Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year.

Upcoming data shows traffic deaths soaring in the U.S. The Biden administration is steering $5 billion in federal aid to cities and localities to address the growing crisis.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the administration's Trucking Action Plan and how it will help supply chains, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg also delivers remarks.

New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026 under new rules unveiled by the government.

U.S. officials are adopting a long delayed rule aimed at reducing deaths and environmental damage from oil and gas pipeline ruptures.

Politicians and friends are fondly remembering Don Young.

Several congressional Democrats are raising doubts about the proposed merger of Frontier and Spirit airlines.

Social media users are suggesting soaring fuel prices in the U.S. are part of a government scheme to get drivers into electric vehicles.

Public transit systems straining to win back riders after being crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic are getting a $3.7 billion boost to help stay afloat and invest in electric buses.

Vice President Kamala Harris is in Selma, Alabama, to mark the anniversary of a defining moment in the fight for equal voting rights.

The federal government has a new warning to states seeking billions of dollars from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law to widen roads: You must protect the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists or risk losing the money.

Clogged U.S. ports are being given access to nearly $450 million in federal money from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law.

States are getting the go-ahead to build a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations that would place new or upgraded stations every 50 miles along interstate highways.

Drivers, beware: Speed cameras may be on their way to a location near you thanks to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law.

The airline that flew a load of monkeys to the U.S. who were later involved in a highway wreck says it will stop this shipments this month.

The government has reported that U.S. traffic deaths surged in the first nine months of 2021 to 31,720, keeping up a record pace of increased dangerous driving during the pandemic.

Florida Republicans want to forbid discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in schools.