Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

The commuter rail agency is seeking $230 million from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program to pay for replacing 17 bridges in the Chicago area.

Video obtained by FOX 32 Chicago showed flames coming from a Metra train Monday evening, causing significant delays.

Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, ...

The clock is ticking for transit agencies facing a crater-sized budget hole, Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski warned at ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent need to replace aging bridges. Metra owns 446 of the 926 bridges on its ...

Lorene Wilson, a 69-year-old Chicagoan, was killed. Bruscato questions the safety of the intersection, saying it is the same ...

An outbound Union Pacific Northwest Line train hit a car just before 4 p.m. near the Norwood Park station near the ...

Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority released a plan calling for $1.5 billion in operating funding from state and ...

Chicago-based Range Group and HSA Commercial Real Estate have acquired adjacent parcels at 2519 W. Fulton Ave. and 2520 W.

Chicago's transit agency leaders spent the last year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The ...