Xavier Becerra said he will “scrap the current configuration” of the project to ensure it’s completed on time and on budget.

Xavier Becerra, who served as the Health Secretary under former President Joe Biden, vowed to scrap Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA ...

Ten California mayors push back against Gov. Newsom's high-speed rail funding plans, opposing the use of local taxpayer money after 16 years of no track.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra has vowed to scrap the current High-Speed Rail plan and to forge a new path ...

The bullet train project launched in 2008 with promises of completion by 2020. Now it's mostly concrete supports. No tracks or train.

But an even more controversial element of the plan was the assumption that local revenue from “tax increment financing” would ...

Becerra tells Fresno he'd scrap the current bullet‑train plan. The comment intensifies debate in the Central Valley.

State auditors criticized California’s high-speed rail project from San Francisco to Los Angeles, saying the costly project ...

It will go down as the most wasteful government project in California history.

California’s high-speed rail project has surged from the original $33 billion to a staggering  $231 billion. As Katy Grimes ...

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It’s been more than a decade and a half since I first wrote that the California bullet train to nowhere would be a disaster. I write that not just to toot my own horn. It was an easy prediction to ...