In a powerful rebuke of environmental extremism and a proposed law that would enable the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assert unprecedented authority under the Clean Water Act, Minnesota ...

The M/V Mesabi Miner has sailed from Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., becoming Interlake Steamship Company’s fourth self-unloading bulk carrier to be outfitted with exhaust ...

ST. PAUL - The United States needs to renew a transportation vision like that of 50 years ago, the House's top transportation authority says. When the interstate highway system was developed in the ...

The U.S. commercial maritime industry is enjoying its most robust period in a generation, with a spate of newbuild activities spurred largely by a resurgent energy production market in the U.S. as ...

Students in Elk River were demanding changes, demanding safety. A classmate had been killed trying to cross busy Highway 169 from houses on one side of the four-lane strip of concrete and 55 mph ...

If the late U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar had been speaking to the crowd gathered at the Duluth International Airport on Friday, he would have wanted it to be a history lesson on transportation. "So I'm ...

ST. PAUL - U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar refuses to give in to a popular president's pressure to delay a new federal transportation funding plan. "We intend to move this bill forward, this administration ...

Rep. James Oberstar talks about Minnesota transportation projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act during a 2009 press conference.. Minnesota Democrat James Oberstar, the 36-year ...

At 8 a.m. this morning, more than 1,800 people showed up for a congressional debate in Duluth, Minnesota between 18-term Democrat Jim Oberstar and his Republican opponent Chip Cravaack, a former Navy ...

Remember those signs that 18-term incumbent Jim Oberstar of Minnesota might be in trouble? First an internal GOP poll showed Republican Chip Cravaack, a former Navy and Northwest Airlines pilot, ...

CAGW recently named House Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) Porker of the Month for August, 2007. In the wake of the deadly Minnesota bridge collapse, Chairman Oberstar’s ...