transportation

NEW BEDFORD - The Downtown New Bedford branch of the Registry of Motor Vehicles is relocating. In a surprise announcement, MassDOT says the branch will permanently close the Union Street location on Friday at 5 P.M. and open it's new location at the New Bedford Industrial Business Park on Monday, February 6th...

Expect detours Thursday if you're looking to head into downtown New Bedford from I-195. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation says the southbound downtown New Bedford exits 15 from both sides of I-195 will be closed early Thursday morning to allow railroad bridge work on the Wamsutta Bridge...

During his weekly radio program Mayor Jon Mitchell discussed the New Bedford Regional Airport and the recent approvals it received from United States Customs and Border Protection and the United States Department of Agriculture to accept international flights.

House Speaker pro Tempore Patricia Haddad is giving her support to a Southcoast Rail route going through Middleboro.

Local leaders are reacting after state officials gave a presentation on Monday regarding the costs of a proposed Southcoast Rail route going through Stoughton.

Hopes for Southcoast Rail are being kept alive after the MassDOT Board of Directors approved a final Capital Investment Plan on Monday which included $148 million for the rail project.

Plans by the MBTA to raise fares has been met with opposition from many local commuters.

Look, up in the sky - it's a bird, it's a plane, wait, it's the world's first flying car! Talk about a new dimension of personal freedom, imagine driving out of your garage, down the road to an appropriate space and taking off in your own flying car...

Washington  (AP) - Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through a contentious spring and summer - cooperation between Republicans and President Barack Obama. Lawmakers face a weighty list of unfinished business and looming deadlines, including a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open beyond Sept...

In the years since Massachusetts received about $7 billion from the federal government for Boston's massive underground highway project known as the Big Dig, the state — like most others — has seen U.S. funding for transportation upkeep slowly diminish.