Transportation

Federal safety officials are seeking a $325,000 fine against Southwest Airlines and say that the carrier used a plane too long before making a permanent repair to a crease in the fuselage.

A record 4 million passengers passed through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in June, surpassing the previous record set in August 2014.

The transit network in the nation's capital remained hobbled Tuesday morning following an electrical malfunction that filled a busy subway station with smoke, killing one woman and sending dozens of people to hospitals.

California's high-speed rail project promises to reduce the Los Angeles to San Francisco trip to less than three hours.

Spanish train drivers have called four days of strikes in September following a breakdown in talks with state rail company Renfe over staffing and working conditions agreements.

If you get on a Spirit Airlines flight, there's a 50-50 chance that your flight will be late.

In a bid to create momentum for a massive overhaul of the crumbling passenger rail corridor between New Jersey and New York City, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Tuesday proposed the creation of a new nonprofit development corporation to plan and finance the project.

Southwest Airlines Co. said Tuesday that passenger traffic rose in July over the same month last year, but the carrier predicted that a key revenue figure will drop 1 percent in the third quarter, an indication of lower average prices.

Passengers are flying more and empty seats are even harder to find on American Airlines and US Airways.

United Airlines said Monday that passengers flew more miles and left fewer seats empty last month than in July 2014.

An unusual home taking shape inside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant is intended to be part of a movement to rebuild Detroit's economy and deteriorating housing stock.

Four more maritime officials were put under formal investigation Friday as a charred ferry was towed into the Italian port of Brindisi and authorities prepared to search it for possible more dead.

A worker at Japan's wrecked nuclear power plant has died after his head got stuck in a hatch on the back of a septic tank truck while inspecting the vehicle, the latest accident at a site still struggling with the cleanup of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Some shipbuilding maintenance employees in Maine are splitting a $3 million lottery jackpot.

Officials in New Mexico are blasting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not informing them soon enough about a plume of mustard-colored muck floating downstream from a Colorado mine.

Los Angeles has agreed to give up LA/Ontario International Airport, returning the struggling complex to local control after three decades and ending a long legal battle, it was announced Thursday.