An ambitious state-run high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco has gone off track.

"Our country has never seen a fiscal disaster of this magnitude," says California congressman Kevin Kiley.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has opened a $3.5 billion bidding process for companies to build track and rail systems for its high-speed rail project. The agency in a press release ...

For decades, the United States has imagined high-speed rail while nations like Japan, France and Spain simply built it, turning their bullet trains into symbols of efficiency and comfort. Beyond ...

High-speed rail, or train systems that are capable of speeds of at least 186 mph, simply doesn't exist in the United States. High-speed rail had its start in Japan in 1964 with the bullet train, and ...

A high-speed rail station downtown could boost foot traffic and encourage revitalization efforts, business officials say.

False shoring at the Church Avenue overpass ignited during Fresno high-speed rail work. Firefighters halted train traffic, positioned ladder truck, coordinated with officials. Twenty firefighters ...

The change, one of many to hobble high-speed rail over the years, stemmed from good intentions. Now it's another example of ...

At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name ...