Infrastructure

Kentucky, after plugging billions into its massively underfunded pensions this year, is hitting the brakes on transportation spending.

Road projects in Illinois are imperiled by lawmakers' failure to reach accord with Gov. Bruce Rauner on fiscal 2017 state budget.

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a fiscal 2017 appropriations bill that would reduce funds for the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the District of Columbia.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley gave her assent to a bill authorizing $2.3 billion of revenue bonds for highway projects.

Construction of Maryland's Purple Line P3 rail project will be financed with PABs and a low-interest TIFIA loan.

California local government officials and other stakeholders are becoming increasingly uneasy about the lack of activity in the state legislature’s special session on transportation.

Voters in Wake County, N.C., will decide in November whether to approve a 0.5% increase in the local sales tax to fund a 10-year, $2.39 billion transit plan to reduce highway congestion in the Raleigh area.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has received 585 applications seeking $9.3 billion of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants – almost 19 times more than the $500 that is to be awarded later this year.

Michael Mulhern will resign as executive director of the embattled $1.6 billion MBTA Retirement Fund, which is under fire for its secretive management,

The condition of the state’s road network will worsen without additional investments in highway infrastructure, said Illinois Transportation Secretary Randy Blankenhorn.