California High-Speed Rail News

Like the rest of the country, California voters hold a deeply negative view of the job performance of the U.S. Congress: Just 13 percent approve of the work of the nation's lawmakers in a new Field Poll , compared to 79 percent who disapprove.

Both drivers in the deadly crash of a FedEx truck and bus full of students en route to Humboldt State had clean driving records.

A top Democratic lawmaker in California on Monday backed off an unpopular plan to tax gasoline and diesel fuels and instead proposed a less controversial plan to spend up to $5 billion a year from the state's fledgling carbon program on affordable housing and mass transit.

This undated file photo provided by the California High Speed Rail Authority shows an artist's rendering of a high-speed train traveling along the California coast.

The state Senate leader is backing off a proposal for a so-called carbon tax and instead wants to dedicate billions generated by California's greenhouse gas reduction law to affordable housing, mass transit and high-speed rail.

In an effort to more closely manage how California spends revenue from its fledgling cap-and-trade program, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg , D-Sacramento, on Monday unveiled a plan to dedicate ongoing money to affordable housing, mass transit and high-speed rail.

In a new business plan submitted to state legislators last week, the California High-Speed Rail Authority offered lower revenue projections than it had two years before, predicting that revenue will be "5 percent lower than originally projected by 2025 and 10 percent lower by 2040," according to a report by Sacramento's KCRA.com.

Elk Grove wants to build a train station to serve commuters in the fast-growing city, with hopes of turning dirt on the project in summer 2015.

The State Public Works Board approved the request from the California High-Speed Rail Authority on Friday.

The 2014 plan is an update required every two years for the proposed 520-mile system linking Northern and Southern California.

Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget magic trick seeks to find a way to pay for the proposed California high-speed rail system.

UCLA's Lewis Center revised some of the estimates in its recent report comparing the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions using California high-speed rail to those of bike, pedestrian, and local transit projects.

Call it the Train to Nowhere. Call it Gov. Jerry Brown's ultimate folly. But next month, you might call the California high-speed rail project "under construction."

It all began on the afternoon of Thursday, April 3. I walked from The Bee newsroom to Chinatown.

California's high-speed rail project may run out of money in 2015 due to a lack of state funding.

In a room crowded with representatives from construction-related businesses from across California and even overseas, Fung Lee's 18-employee construction business seems pretty small.

Under federal "Buy America" laws, the California High-Speed Rail Authority and Amtrak will be required to buy new high-speed trains that are built in the United States.

On April 7, representatives of the world's largest railcar manufacturing companies learned about best-practices in American workforce development, diversity, and outreach to disadvantaged workers via an informational webinar hosted by the Jobs to Move America coalition.

Never let it be said that the Legislature does nothing to raise Californians' incomes as we struggle to recover from the Great Recession.

The proposed route for California's bullet train would take it through the McMurtrey Aquatic Center parking lot, the south end of Mill Creek Linear Park, and across the Kern River Parkway, and city officials want a do-over.