A new bridge to carry passenger trains across Capital Boulevard is part of the alignment recommended this week by North Carolina and Virginia transportation officials for a proposed 162-mile track that would run trains as fast as 110 miles per hour between Raleigh and Richmond, Va.

Seventeen miles of Raleigh's northern 540 Outer Loop will receive a fresh coat of asphalt this year in an $8.4 million repaving project that could start by the end of the month.

Orange County commissioners approved preliminary plans to bring more bus service and light rail to the county, giving the local transit authority the go-ahead to apply for federal funding for the project.

After multiple attempts to build a downtown Clayton residential development between Front Street and NC 42 East, East Village, LLC, and federal funds have come together to extend the old railroad street and bring the real estate project to fruition.

State transportation officials say it will cost billions to widen and improve Interstate 95 through North Carolina, and their recent study has found only one viable way to pay for it: tolls.

A man killed in a single-vehicle accident on New Hope Road early Monday morning was traveling over the speed limit and was likely impaired by drugs or alcohol, according to a police report made public today.

Road Worrier:  Heather Peters got the better of two big industries - international carmakers and high-dollar lawyers - when she spurned a class-action lawsuit and went one-on-one against American Honda Motor Co. in a California small claims court.

A Wake County sheriff's deputy was hospitalized Saturday night after a car struck him during a traffic stop in Knightdale, officials said.

Starting April 1, under orders from the Republican-led General Assembly, DOT will collect tolls for the first time on the Neuse and Pamlico ferries, which carry workers to a phosphate mine and military base.

North Carolina transportation crews have removed nearly all the 600 tons of rock that fell on to Interstate 40 in North Carolina just three days after a mud and rock slide in eight miles away in Tennessee closed the westbound lanes of the highway.

Police have charged a driver in an accident where a 52-year-old woman was hit by a car while crossing Duraleigh Road at the intersection of Pleasant Valley Road on Thursday evening.

After some last-minute confusion, plans for a light-rail line between Chapel Hill and Durham got unanimous approval Wednesday from a bi-county transportation committee.

An accident has been reported on Interstate 440, heading east, near Western Boulevard.

The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded a pair of contracts to fix a pair of aging Wake County bridges.

Transportation advisers expect to vote Wednesday morning on their favored route for a light-rail line between Chapel Hill and Durham, but the Orange County commissioners could throw in a complication with vote of their own tonight.

Triangle Transit Authority presented a draft plan to the Raleigh City Council today recommending new commuter and light-rail services among other major transportation improvements.

North Carolina motorists have free sailing again on Interstate 40 through the mountains after crews cleared away rock slides that blocked the highway.

Commuters on major Raleigh thoroughfares may soon stop at fewer red lights, thanks to an overhaul of the city's stoplight timing system that has been years in the making.

At a string of public hearings that starts Tuesday in Lumberton, state highway engineers will ask Eastern North Carolina residents what they think about a novel and ambitious proposal to give Interstate 95 a long-needed overhaul - and to cover the $4.4 billion cost by collecting tolls electronically from its drivers.