Thousands of people drive through the Olympia-Tumwater area every day, not realizing how dramatically I-5 changed life when it was built.

The rise of social media has disrupted both the media system and political parties. Financial markets gyrate, industries rise and fall at blistering rates, and new life-changing technologies appear ...

Every day, New Yorkers receive a staggering 2.3 million packages at their doorstop. Nearly 90% of those goods snake through ...

This article originally published at As a Bay Area highway landmark decays, new owners take over property.

In this episode, we examine how the U.S. Interstate Highway System became one of the largest infrastructure projects in human history. We explore why it was built, how it reshaped travel and commerce, ...

Route 66. The name alone evokes nostalgia for a simpler, freer time in American history, when roadies stopped for a hot dog with ketchup, then drove into ocher sunsets suspended over the Mojave desert ...

From a Kimball perspective, the Ports-to-Plains conversation isn’t abstract policy talk or something happening “somewhere else.” It runs right through this community’s front yard. For generations, ...

Trunk Highway 36 today functions as one of the Twin Cities’ most important east–west corridors, carrying commuters from Roseville to Stillwater at freeway speeds that would have been unimaginable when ...

A fire was reported near the entrance of the Central Avenue exit of Interstate Highway 580 in Richmond on Sunday afternoon, said California Highway Patrol officials There were reports of smoke under ...

Loop 1 in Austin goes in a straight line. San Antonio's Interstate 410 isn't classified as a loop — even though it's shaped like a loop and locals call it as such. And Nacogdoches Road on the city's ...

Crowds flocked in droves to the grand spectacle of the 1939 New York World's Fair. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In July 1937, the Great Depression had eased to the point where the U.S. unemployment ...