Languages: English. A series of maps show the full extent of California's proposed high-speed rail routes that would provide an efficient and quick way of travel between the state's major cities.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority's board of directors approved the final environmental impact report last Thursday and selected a route for the Palmdale to Burbank section of the project.

Facing possible loss of federal grants, the authority leading the $128 billion project looks for new funding sources.

The proposed California bullet train will undergo major design changes, involving more than half of the route that traverses ... The California High-Speed Rail Authority, responding to public ...

In footage shown to Newsweek, the California High-Speed Rail Authority highlighted large stretches of underpass and routes ...

A map from the California High-Speed Rail Authority shows four route options for future connections from the Merced-Fresno rail line to an east-west connection to Gilroy and San Jose. California ...

In November 2018, as California suffered a historically destructive and deadly outbreak of wildfires, conspiracy theorists pushed absurd notions about nefarious, powerful actors intentionally ...

Two court decisions have blocked the California High ... decisions like private high-speed rail companies do: minimizing construction costs and choosing the most direct route possible.

SAN FRANCISCO – The California High Speed Rail Authority has given its final approval to a route that would link the state’s major cities and regions. Environmental studies approved Wednesday ...

California high-speed rail ... communities and general inexperience with high-speed rail in the U.S. public sector. One early change to the initial route, designed to gain the support of a Los ...

More than 10 years ago, the California High-Speed Rail Authority launched its effort to buy the property needed for the state’s planned bullet-train route through the central San Joaquin Valley.

Flynn Nicholls is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on U.S. politics and society. Originally from New Zealand, Flynn joined Newsweek in 2024 and had previously ...