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The Keystone crude pipeline was shut Oct. 30 after leaking thousands of barrels of crude in North Dakota, the third spill along the pipeline’s route in less than three years.

Canada’s beleaguered energy sector suffered another morale blow as Encana Corp. — one of its marquee companies that was born out of the 19th-century railway boom — announced plans to move its headquarters to the U.S. and drop the link to Canada from its name.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a construction project for the agency’s new John A. Volpe Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Mass.

The Senate on Oct. 31 voted 84-9 to advance legislation that would fund federal transportation programs through fiscal 2020.

President Donald Trump’s effort to boost corn demand by allowing year-round sales of ethanol-blended gasoline has run into a logistical problem. Few stations offer it.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is facing challenges in a number of programmatic areas that could play a role in reducing recent increases in fatalities involving large trucks and buses, according to a new report by the Department of Transportation Inspector General.

Alberta took a step toward easing the pain of its crude-production caps by allowing oil companies to exceed output limits if they ship the extra production by rail.

Federal Reserve officials reduced interest rates by a quarter-percentage point for the third time this year and hinted they may be done loosening monetary policy, at least for one meeting.

President Donald Trump still hopes to ink a trade accord with Xi Jinping next month, even after plans were thrown into question Oct. 30 when Chile canceled an upcoming summit where the two leaders planned to meet.

The sheer volume of wind turbine blades, towers and other parts moving through Duluth, Minn., in 2019 surpassed record tonnage totals this week by reaching 306,000 freight tons.