California High-Speed Rail News

On February 26th of this year, a much delayed congressional hearing on oil-by-rail safety finally occurred.

A year after a high-speed train derailed on the outskirts of the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, survivors and relatives of some of the 80 people who died accuse current and previous Spanish governments of having failed to prevent the accident.

Workers ease into place a large piston-and-cylinder structure next to a buried concrete piling near Madera as part of an engineering test for California's high-speed rail project.

Gov. Rick Scott, who killed a high-speed train system for Tampa Bay, has become a vocal cheerleader for another train: All Aboard Florida, a privately funded rail venture on Florida's east coast.

Major water districts in California are quietly considering using property taxes - and possibly raising them without a vote of the public - to help fund Gov. Jerry Brown's $25 billion plan to build two massive tunnels through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

A solution looking for a problem? A genuine leap forward? The best we can expect from political compromise? Or something truly brave? Take your pick.

The July 16 Bee holds two revealing articles: First is the scheme to divide California into six states, the other is about the Fresno County Board of Supervisors considering reversing their support of high-speed rail.

California's new budget allocates a quarter of the fees collected through the state's cap-and-trade program to high-speed rail that should eventually connect the Bay Area to Los Angeles.

A common criticism leveled against the California high speed rail project is that private investors haven't committed anything to the project.

Try finding out why he turned down $2.4 billion for the high-speed rail project.

The long road back for California Republicans came into clearer focus in the past few days as the Democratic candidate in the race for state controller was finally confirmed and the party's little-known nominee for governor took some ill-advised cracks at the only Republican to win two landslide elections as governor of the nation's largest state ... (more)

Last week, demolition began in Fresno to clear the way for the first stretch of track.

State Sen. Kevin de Leon prepares to eat some of the "humble pie" he brought and served at a meeting of The Fresno Bee's Editorial Board.

Pamela Washington of Fresno measures a length of conduit in an introductory class at IBEW Local 100 training center on Friday, July 18, 2014.

Get ready for season two of HBO's hit show True Detective , Southern California.

President Barack Obama tried to focus attention this week on public-private partnerships to build infrastructure.

In the future, high-speed rail will connect not only cities, states and countries, but also far-reaching continents.

A one-year sponsorship of a bullet train could cost 12 million yuan , according to a report.

Foundations and the federal government are using "crowdsourcing" to get the public involved in everything from landing a robotic spacecraft on the moon to getting rid of land mines .

The cap-and-trade program and high-speed rail project come to mind. We can add to this list the state's "cash-for-clunkers" program.