Transportation

Sacramento County airport officials said Friday they are looking into ways they can pay to keep the Sacramento Executive Airport traffic control tower open if the federal government follows through on a plan to cut tower financing.

The average price of gasoline in the area rose only 0.7 cents to $3.90 a gallon, according to national gas price tracker GasBuddy.com's weekly report, released Monday.

The California Department of Transportation said Monday that it was reviewing whether the large bolts that broke last month on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had failed quality-control tests by the agency's materials lab.

The far left lanes of eastbound and westbound Interstate 80 between Dixon and Vacaville will be closed to traffic late Monday to early Tuesday as the California Department of Transportation prepares for a major paving project.

Top congressional Republicans are preparing new roadblocks for an ambitious California high-speed rail project that’s received both praise and caution flags from a long-awaited federal audit.

The Real McCoy II Ferry will suspend service overnight Tuesday to allow for regular preventive maintenance.

In an investigation released Thursday, the Bureau of State Audits sharply criticized the California Department of Transportation for numerous lapses in managing a unit that tests foundations of bridges and other freeway structures to verify their soundness and safety.

Two people died Thursday morning in a fiery collision on Interstate 80 reportedly caused by a big-rig driver who briefly lost consciousness while choking on food, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Fixing broken bolts that are key to the Bay Bridge's ability to withstand a seismic shock will take months but should not delay its opening, California Department of Transportation officials said Wednesday.

Sacramento-area motorists are paying nearly $4 a gallon for gasoline, yet energy experts are quick to say that things aren't so bad.

Future Ford in the Roseville Automall has won Ford Motor Co.'s President's Award for the 13th consecutive year, the only Ford dealership in the nation to reach that mark.

The California Air Resources Board has added $6 million to the state's Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.

The downtown properties that Sacramento officials are proposing to give to developers as part of a $448 million arena deal will increase sharply in value once the arena is built, several commercial real estate experts said.

Sacramento would create a bit of history if it can spin its downtown parking garages and meters into cash to buy a new home for the Kings.

Sacramento County officials expressed disappointment Friday with a federal government decision to close the control tower at Executive Airport.

Californians don't drive much, a new report suggests.

Megabus.com, a discount service sporting bright blue and orange double-decker buses, is part of a national wave of new intercity bus companies competing not only with each other, but with cars, trains and even planes for frugal travelers.

Want to hail a cab in Sacramento? Hang out in front of the Capitol. Want to hail a lawmaker? It helps to know someone inside.

For those who think law enforcement officials are not subject to traffic tickets, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has a message: Think again.

Giant rooms are filled with sofa-sized diesel engines, massive trucks and myriad car parts, yet the floors look clean enough to spread out a picnic blanket.

Megabus.com, a low-cost bus carrier that began offering express service connecting Sacramento, San Francisco and Sparks, Nev., in December, has launched a new service to and from the Silver Legacy resort casino in downtown Reno.

Charles "Chuck" Sorenson had moved to the sleepy Sacramento Delta to become its resident CHP officer, patrolling country roads. He had been married 2 1/2 years and had a 16-month-old son when he left on patrol March 15, 1963. That would be the day he died.

Sacramento International Airport just got ranked fourth best in customer service out of 43 airports in North America, thanks in good part to its new terminal.

The Sacramento-based California New Car Dealers Association has selected longtime official Brian Maas as its new president.

A Taiwanese airline is at least three years away from building a flight training school at Sacramento Executive Airport, and officials are anticipating questions from nearby residents.

A new El Dorado County carpool lane's opening has been delayed until May because of safety concerns, according to the state Department of Transportation.

For almost as long as there's been an LAX, there have been raging controversies over how big the airport would eventually grow and how many homes and businesses would be sacrificed for that progress.

The man chosen as the new director of Sacramento International Airport is a longtime airport executive with a solid business background who has taken an up-and-down ride to his new position.

California's cities and counties put out a report this week bemoaning what your tires probably have told you: The roads, in bad shape four years ago, are even worse now.

Highway officials are warning drivers of possible freeway slowdowns this morning in West Sacramento due to the temporary planned closure of the westbound Highway 50 ramp to eastbound Interstate 80.

Last weekend, Louie Kraushar received the Federal Aviation Administration's Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, which recognizes pilots who have at least 50 consecutive years of safe flight operations in the United States.

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