Infrastructure

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has formed a panel to explore financing options for overhauling its transportation infrastructure "over the next 30 years and beyond."

FEMA is providing its largest grant ever -- $3 billion—to the New York City Housing Authority to repair and protect 33 developments severely damaged during Hurricane Sandy.

Airport capital spending will rise over next five years to meet growing passenger demand, Moody's says.

President Obama's proposed six-year transportation bill would give states more flexibility in tolling of existing roads and bridges.

Congress will not find the revenue needed to fund a multi-year federal transportation bill before the most recent short-term fix lapses in two months, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Ohio, said.

Measures in the House and Senate would set aside for local projects a portion of states’ federal highway funding.

The Central Florida Expressway Authority won a 1.23% interest rate on a 35-year TIFIA loan Wednesday, the program's lowest-ever long-term rate, a federal transportation official said.

States have postponed scores of road projects over concerns that federal funding will be delayed during the summer construction season.

States have postponed scores of road projects over concerns that federal funding will be delayed during the summer construction season.

Mayors will unleash a coast-to-coast political push for a significant increase in federal transportation funding.

A subsea traffic tunnel below Chesapeake Bay has been pushed ahead to take advantage of low interest rates.

A House bill would stop federal funding for public transit and bike paths to protect solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.

Another short-term fix of the Highway Trust Fund is likely as Congress struggles with how to pay for a multiyear transportation measure.

Water utility executives from 47 states stormed Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to repeal a ban on the use of tax-exempt bonds for projects already benefiting from certain federal assistance.

Airport capital needs will total $75.7 billion through 2019 to keep pace with increases in passenger and cargo loads.

State and local officials see chaos ahead for highway funding if Congress doesn't quickly pass a long-term transportation bill.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and two fellow Democrats have introduced a bill that would provide $50 million in federal grants for each of fiscal years 2015-2019 to help states, local communities, and tribal governments upgrade their water and wastewater infrastructure systems.

The Arizona Department of Transportation can begin acquiring right-of-way for the 22-mile-long Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway after the Federal Highway Administration issued its record of decision approving the project.

A federal ruling against states may set a precedent for risky local spending on broadband, credit analysts said.

The Highway Trust Fund will be insolvent this summer without new revenues to bolster gas tax collections, CBO says in new analysis.