Economy

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.

Veronique ‘Ronnie’ Hakim returns as MTA New York City Transit president after 18 months as NJ Transit executive director.

Pat Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is planning to step down, the agency announced Thursday.

A $282 million federal transportation loan will finance additional lanes on an eight-mile stretch of U.S. 183 in Austin, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced.

New York’s transit workers union chief and the CEO of a paratransit vendor plan to meet again in the hopes of averting a strike over working conditions.

Legislative gridlock in Congress over long-term transportation funding is causing problems for the states.

Driven by the expansion of the U.S. federal government’s Medicaid program, spending by states in fiscal 2015 rose to its highest rate in 23 years, according to report released by the National Association of Budget Officers on Thursday.

The Chicago City Council adopted new rules governing any future asset privatization deals against a backdrop of lingering political and public anger over the city’s parking meter lease fiasco.

Higher interest rates could challenge New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the next few years, said its chief financial officer.

The Nov. 10 agreement between the town of Morristown, N.J., and Atlantic Health System on Morristown Medical Center property tax appeals could have a "ripple effect" for no-for-profit hospitals across the U.S., according to Moody's Investors Service.

Los Angeles Airport expects to be the busiest U.S. airport during Thanksgiving holiday for third year in a row.