President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, was headed down a smooth path to quick confirmation, pledging to senators on Thursday to work with them to carry out the administration's ambitious goal of rebuilding the country's infrastructure.

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President-elect Joe Biden nominated his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation on Tuesday and intends to choose former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as his energy secretary.

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President-elect Joe Biden is considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a substantial and somewhat divisive figure in Democratic Party politics, to serve as his transportation secretary.

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Federal officials are using the recent stimulus legislation to provide about $83 million worth of aid to 87 airports in Wisconsin, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elain Chao announced Tuesday.

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The Michigan Senate voted on Tuesday to require that a study be done to examine the possibility of collecting tolls along the state's highways, as lawmakers consider ways to boost spending on deteriorating infrastructure.

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Two Wisconsin airports are getting $6.7 million in federal infrastructure grants to pay for runway improvements.

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The U.S. government's road-safety agency says traffic deaths have fallen for the second straight year.

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On a clear, dry June evening in 2015, cars and trucks rolled slowly amid a herky-jerky backup ahead of a construction zone on Interstate 75 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Barreling toward them: an 18-ton tractor-trailer going about 80 mph.

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Federal transportation officials have ordered a Houston-based energy transportation company not to re-open a pipeline after it ruptured and leaked oil into a Wisconsin field.

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By Jack Zemlicka It costs La Crosse County about $25 plus labor to replace a stop sign. In some cases, the county can cut that cost in half. “If the sign isn’t bent, or there isn’t a bullet hole or ...

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