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High-speed rail officials are expected tomorrow to approve a business plan that details how they hope to pay for a proposed passenger train line between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The California High-Speed Rail Authority board will meet in San Francisco to hear testimony about the 212-page... + read more

The California High-Speed Rail Authority unveiled a new business plan yesterday slashing $30 billion from the price tag for connecting Anaheim and San Francisco. And retreating from a series of political missteps, the authority also vowed to connect its initial segment between Bakersfield and... + read more

With most Californians worried about the state budget and opposed to trigger cuts to education, a slim majority would support Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to increase taxes, according to a survey released yesterday by the Public Policy Institute of California. Among likely voters, 52 percent... + read more

SACRAMENTO – Contractors vying to build the first sections of California’s proposed high-speed rail line will get the green light to start making their bids within just a few weeks. Yesterday, the California High-Speed Rail Authority approved the terms and conditions that bidders... + read more

California High-Speed Rail Authority leaders acknowledge they have “a lot of damage to undo” with Central Valley farmers and property owners along the route of the proposed train system. As political battles loom in Sacramento over issuing $2.7 billion in bonds to begin building... + read more

If you want to build a rail line between Anaheim and San Francisco, people are going to have to get out of the way. Literally.  The proposed California High-Speed Rail would require a lot of land, meaning thousands of California families and businesses will have to move if the... + read more

California's high-speed rail project will cost far less than the state's current estimate of nearly $100 billion, and environmental fees paid by carbon producers will be a source of funding, Gov. Jerry Brown said in an interview aired in Los Angeles on Sunday. The Democratic... + read more