Transportation

Southwest Airlines says it has a tentative contract agreement with the union representing its flight attendants.

Hundreds of Milwaukee County union bus drivers went on strike early Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of commuters scrambling to make alternative plans to get to work and elsewhere.

Of countless ghostly abandoned factories and mines in Japan, this fortress island near Nagasaki is among the most notorious.

Travelers easily whiz from city to city on high-speed trains in many parts of South America, Asia and Europe.

Eight cruise ship passengers and their pilot died on a sightseeing excursion in Alaska when their small plane crashed in remote and rugged terrain.

Urban planners have long considered public transportation the best remedy for traffic congestion, but many of the nation's largest mass-transit systems simply aren't up to the task.

A slight majority of Americans prefer living in a single-family house in the suburbs or a rural area with more land, even if it means driving long distances to get to work or run errands, according to a poll by The Associated Press-GfK.

A new report from New York University projects major savings from combining contracts to design and build public works, citing savings from the approach already in use on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

Four flight attendants are suing Boeing, claiming that toxic air from an engine leaked into their plane and made them seriously ill on a 2013 flight.

Ever since Tropical Storm Irene struck in 2011, Vermont has been pushing to make sure bridges and culverts are rebuilt to more flood-resistant standards.

A strike by workers in the northern French port of Calais has left all passenger ferry service between the city and the English city of Dover suspended and briefly slowed traffic in the Eurotunnel.

Portugal's government says it is granting Spain's Grupo Avanza the concession to operate Lisbon's subway and bus companies, which are publicly owned.

The number is around 60, give or take, with a rumble that is part of the soundtrack to an already unique U.S. Open.