Economy

The House passed a multiyear transportation funding bill on Thursday that provides $305 billion over five years.

Motor fuel tax revenues and gambling tax funds owed to local governments in Illinois would begin flowing again under legislation advancing with Gov. Bruce Rauner’s support.

With the nation’s largest percentage of uninsured patients, Texas hospitals face great uncertainty over whether the federal government will renew a five-year Medicaid waiver or penalize the state for not expanding coverage, experts say.

General revenue offsets totaling $70 billion in the five-year highway bill must cover a shortfall in gas tax collections.

Philadelphia International Airport CEO Mark Gale is retiring after six years running the nation’s 12th busiest airport.

The transportation conference committee on Tuesday reported a five-year bill that provides $305 billion of federal funding.

The conference committee on the transportation bill revived a transit funding program aimed at congested urban areas.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is planning a $6.5 billion 2016 spending plan that funds major transportation projects, the agency announced Monday.

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton proposed $275 billion of new federal infrastructure funding at a campaign rally in Boston on Sunday.

In its last deal of the year, the University of Texas System will offer investors a choice of taxable or tax-exempt bonds in a $241 million pricing.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said he expects Congress to agree on a multiyear highway bill by Christmas.

How New York’s MTA communicated amid Hurricane Sandy could provide a digital-age blueprint for any transit crisis.

The recent $20 billion funding agreement for the long-stalled Gateway Hudson River tunnel will benefit the New York and New Jersey regional economies, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Existing P3 arrangement will be expanded by Virginia to include tolls on high-occupancy interstate highway lanes near Washington, D.C.

A compromise measure reconciling House and Senate transportation funding bills could be ready for action next week.

Texas’ El Paso County Hospital District received a two-notch Standard & Poor’s downgrade in the wake of the district’s legal settlement with an affiliated children’s hospital that’s in bankruptcy.

Standard & Poor's stripped Ohio-based Alliance Community Hospital of its investment grade rating based on revised stand-alone, acute-care hospital criteria.

In one of its largest deals in recent years, the Kansas Department of Transportation will issue $400 million of revenue bonds for its “T-Works” highway program.

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s $60 million of ongoing terminal and parking projects are on time and on budget, airport officials told the City Council in a progress report Nov. 18.

Managing a successful transportation P3 requires political support and public approval from the beginning of the process, experts say.