Higley students affected by proposed boundary changes are allowed to stay at their home schools — as long as their parents provide transportation.

Elsewhere on this Web site is my story about how the tanking economy is kicking the legs out from underneath the financing of transportation/transit improvements. But could this revenue shortfall have been prevented, or at least the damage limited?

The best way to unclog the nation’s highways and repair crumbling bridges is to introduce a payment system similar to movie-ticket pricing and cell-phone rates, the nation’s top transportation official said.

PHILADELPHIA - The nation's top transportation official ordered an investigation of two airlines that canceled hundreds of flights over the holiday weekend because of computer and staffing problems, stranding thousands of travelers.

PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano says she believes Arizona voters will get to decide in November whether to raise the state sales tax by a penny to pay for a $42 billion transportation plan.

The nation's chief transportation official said Wednesday foes of the pilot program to let Mexican trucks drive anywhere in this country are providing misinformation about its effects on security and safety.

Arizonans may have to get used to the idea of paying tolls if they want new and expanded roads, the nation’s new top transportation official said Monday.

Arizonans may have to get used to the idea of paying tolls if they want new and expanded roads, the nation’s new top transportation official said Monday.

Christopher Geist and Emma Vega are willing to do just about anything to encourage more people to take alternative modes of transportation to work.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has unveiled $75 million in federal funding to help build a three-mile light rail extension connecting Phoenix and Tempe to Mesa.

Mesa Vice Mayor Scott Somers has been re-appointed to the National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. Somers will serve a two-year term, following his selection from a pool of 85 applicants.

At least Romney had binders. Binders full of qualified women to fill cabinet positions, that is. Democrats mercilessly pounded Romney for the binders comment he made during the 2012 presidential campaign, but I’ll bet the Obama campaign now wishes Romney had passed the binders on to Obama since it seems he’s having a hard time picking women to fill his second term cabinet positions.

WASHINGTON - Americans should park their recalled Toyotas unless driving to dealers for accelerator repairs, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Wednesday - then quickly took it back - as skepticism of company fixes grew and the government's probe expanded to other models in the U.S. and Japan. Questions now are being raised about the brakes on Toyota's marquee Prius hybrid.

MINNEAPOLIS - Divers removed another body from the wreckage of a freeway bridge Friday, while the federal transportation secretary offered $50 million to help with recovery and rebuilding. The known death toll from last week's collapse reached eight when Navy divers found a body about noon.

PHOENIX - State transportation officials say Arizona is at a crossroads when it comes to future road construction with funding expected to decline in a few years.

Arizona can only benefit by having native daughter Mary Peters at President Bush’s side as his new secretary of transportation.

Transportation officials on Tuesday warned Gov. Janet Napolitano and four other Western governors of a pending transportation crisis that could the threaten the country’s trade and commerce if something isn’t done soon.

Metro light rail will receive $36 million in stimulus money, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Friday.

Retail gasoline prices tumbled Friday to the lowest level in nearly five years. And while crude futures rose, analysts believed it was a temporary pause in an extended, downward arc as the recession spreads.