Department of Transportation

A new report shows that the Transportation Department’s watchdog wanted Elaine Chao to be criminally investigated late last year when she was transportation secretary, but was rebuffed.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg shares what it was like to attend his first meeting in the Oval Office, which he had to do remotely because he was in coronavirus quarantine.

There’s a new push on Beacon Hill to help drivers trapped by invalid license suspensions. A bill filed by state Sen. Eric Lesser would give the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles discretion over whether to suspend someone’s driving privileges in certain cases. The move comes after the RMV penalized thousands of drivers in Massachusetts in recent months for violations...

Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 1.3 million vehicles because the software in their emergency-call systems could send responders to the wrong location after a crash

An associate professor at the UMass Amherst College of Nursing found dozens of tolls from New York and New Jersey charged to her account after she connected a new SUV’s dealer plate to her E-ZPass account.

President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is headed down a smooth path to quick confirmation

An official with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation says the pandemic could make it harder to keep roads plowed. It’s possible an outbreak in some of the state’s maintenance sheds timed with a nor’easter could leave some roads unplowed, said David Gray, the department’s winter maintenance program specialist. Gray tells The Concord Monitor there are 93 sheds around the...

From Leominster to Worcester, people are preparing the streets for the first big storm of the year.

The Department of Transportation issued a new rule Wednesday that when it comes to air travel, only dogs can be considered service animals.

Exit renumbering begins in Massachusetts Sunday night. It starts on route 140 between New Bedford and Taunton.

Massachusetts residents can now have a non-binary gender designation on state driver’s licenses. The state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles says it now recognizes three gender designations: “male,” “female,” and “non-binary.” The change took effect Tuesday.

While maintenance continues on Maine’s Piscataqua River Bridge, the multi-year rehab has become more tangible for some drivers recently.
In June, the Maine and New Hampshire Departments of Transportation began a $53 million project that is the first of its kind performed on the bridge since it opened in 1972.

The multi-year rehab on Maine’s Piscataqua River Bridge is causing more inconvenience for commuters now that additional ramps and lanes have been closed.

Three people, including an 85-year-old man, an 83-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl, were killed and three others were injured in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in North Stonington Wednesday night.

MBTA officials said Monday that a June derailment on the Red Line was caused by a fractured axle, three months after the incident caused major delays. Officials said poor electrical connectivity between a ground brush and ground ring caused stray electrical arcing on the surface of the axle. Over time, this weakened the axle and led to the failure.

A construction worker was hit by a car on Interstate 91 north in Middletown Wednesday and was taken to the hospital.

The Trump administration on Friday began an all-out challenge to California’s authority to set its own automotive emissions standards as government agencies opened an antitrust investigation and told state officials that they appear to be violating the law in a deal with four automakers to reduce pollution. The U.S. Justice Department opened an antitrust probe into the July deal between...

A key vacancy has been filled, on an interim basis, at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles after an official was fired in the wake of the deadly motorcycle crash that killed seven people in June. The state’s Department of Transportation announced Thursday that Paolo Franzese will move within the department to be interim director of the Merit Rating...

A man from Canaan has died after a crash on Route 7 in North Canaan late Sunday night.