All three lanes of Interstate 15 in Hesperia are closed in both directions after a construction worker’s blowtorch caught the overpass bridge’s wooden supports on fire. The freeway is Southern California’s main connector to Las Vegas and has been closed since 1:30 p.m.
Sen. Harry Reid has announced more than $2.5 million in federal highway grants for projects in Nevada intended to improve safety on roads and interstates.
A Nevada company says it plans to revive passenger train excursions between Santa Fe, N.M., and the nearby northern New Mexico town of Lamy.
Transportation officials in Reno have added to their fleet four new buses that run solely on electric batteries.
The governors of two states met at the site of two spectacular engineering achievements Friday and pledged to make the completion of Interstate 11 a reality.
