Infrastructure

The deaths of people who ignored railroad crossing warning lights and barriers triggered new calls for state and federal regulators to strengthen railroad safety laws.

The White House hasn’t endorsed a gas-tax increase, but it also hasn’t ruled it out.

In its first year of local control, Ontario International Airport saw passenger traffic climb 7% over the prior year.

Gov. Charlie Baker's group will examine changes in technology, climate and demographics.

City officials intend to fight language that they say would put the city on the hook for emergency repairs by the state-run MTA.

The $55 million deal would be the second leg of financing needed for the $571 million project.

Phil Murphy's audit mandate is described as the first step to restore the beleaguered mass transit agency’s finances and infrastructure.

The authority realized $534 million in present-value savings from those transactions in 2017, said finance director Patrick McCoy.

Tax-exempt private activity bonds, which came close to being terminated in tax reform legislation, are now a centerpiece of the Trump administration's leaked infrastructure plan -- and market participants hope to use this as a springboard for a return of tax-exempt advance refundings.

President Trump's purported latest infrastructure plan would remove state volume caps, advance refunding prohibitions and state volume caps from private activity bonds used for infrastructure.