MILWAUKEE — Unrelenting winter weather again made travel difficult in the Upper Midwest Tuesday, causing highway spinouts, hundreds of school closings and some grounded flights.
By MERYL KORNFIELD Fresh Take Florida News Service TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Tired of the typical Florida orange stamped on the back of your car? The
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ governor on Monday unveiled a $300 million highway funding plan that calls for increasing taxes and tapping into expected casino
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont lawmakers have introduced a bill that would increase fines for texting while driving and other distracted driving offenses. The Times Argus
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas has trouble keeping road equipment operators from leaving for other, better-paying jobs — so much so that supervisors worry about being
SEATTLE — Residents of the Pacific Northwest took to neighborhood hills with skis, sleds or even just laundry baskets Saturday to celebrate an unusual dump
DES MOINES, Iowa — A bill to ban the use of cellphones while driving has advanced out of an Iowa Senate subcommittee. The bill would
LANSING, Mich. — New Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield said Michigan will always struggle to fund roadwork until it solves the root problem — drivers
PIERRE, S.D. — A House panel on Tuesday endorsed a bill that would expand South Dakota’s texting while driving ban to mostly prohibit mobile device
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — New toll roads. Election law changes. School safety. A possible rollback of health care regulations. Florida’s top legislative leaders and Gov. Ron
LANSING, Mich. — Four former legislative leaders said Thursday that Michigan’s per-gallon gasoline and diesel taxes should be increased by 47 cents over nine years
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas lawmaker on Monday proposed tapping into tax revenue from car sales and imposing a new tax on motor fuels
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers have introduced at least six separate proposals since last month to restrict the use of cellphones while driving. Missouri
DETROIT — The Michigan Department of Transportation plans to install a new warning system on highway ramps with the goal of reducing deadly wrong-way crashes
RICHLAND, Miss. — Commercial traffic is being routed to a detour off of a busy section of highway in central Mississippi. The Mississippi Department of
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota is pushing the speed limit to 60 mph on most two-lane state highways. The Star Tribune reports that state traffic officials say
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A bill to require motorists to use hands-free devices when talking on the phone while driving passed its first committee stop
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Traffic through Alabama’s largest city won’t be normal for months as the state’s busiest road closes for a construction project beginning Monday.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Opponents to highway tolls in Connecticut plan to make it known they oppose new legislation that would authorize electronic tolling. Pat Sasser,
WELLINGTON, Utah — A speeding tractor-trailer skidded off a snow-slicked road Wednesday and crashed into a restaurant in a small Utah town, flattening the establishment