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A top bullet train contractor is contradicting claims by the California high-speed rail authority that the construction pace of the project is on target.
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California’s high-speed rail project will have a friendlier federal relationship when Joe Biden takes office as president. But no one is expecting a bailout from “Amtrak Joe.”
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Commission finds Roy Hill did not violate state conflict-of-interest laws following allegations that he helped modify a contract for a company in which he held stock.
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Costs are rising for California’s high-speed rail project, focused on the Central Valley, as it confronts reduced revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program.
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A bridge that was supposed to take a year is incomplete after four, partly because of corrosion and other problems involving California’s high-speed-rail contractors.
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A newer strain of the coronavirus has a mutation that might make it more infectious, a team of scientists says. Other researchers disagree.
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California’s bullet train board this week put off approving its 2020 business plan, a sign it may want to reassess growing opposition in the state Legislature.
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A majority of the California Assembly has co-sponsored a resolution seeking to defer a contract this year for a Central Valley high-speed rail system.
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California’s future high-speed rail line from Burbank to Los Angeles would follow an existing 14-mile rail corridor but run through dozens of businesses, a draft environmental study found.
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Opponents of the state’s high-speed rail project say California is preparing to violate a 2008 ballot measure promise not to use state subsidies for operation of the bullet train. Proponents disagree.
