The Latest Breaking News from Caltrans

Officials say it could take months for Death Valley National Park to reopen to visitors after Tropical Storm Hilary

A section of Los Angeles' Metro rail system that extends from Norwalk to the South Bay was delayed this week because of the theft of copper wires used to power the rail cars.

A first of its kind wildlife crossing in Northern California has been proposed over Highway 101 in San Benito County — the latest project in the state's efforts to provide safe passage for mountain lions and other animals over dangerous roadways.

It didn't take long for a team of highway archaeologists to mark their first find while searching for buried human remains on an aging stretch of U.S. Highway 395 that cuts along the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada range.

LOS ANGELES — With storm-damaged Highway 1 under reconstruction in three different places, California Transportation Dept. officials say northbound drivers on that route won’t be able to reach Big Sur directly for at least two months.

SAN DIEGO — Every day, thousands of people in the Mexico border region wake up with the same question: How long is the crossing line to the U.S.?

LOS ANGELES — During the nearly two weeks he was stranded in his home, Mark Steven Young called about 20 people or agencies to try to get his street plowed and a 6-foot mound of snow cleared from his door.

Officials knew the San Bernardino County mountains were going to be hit by a bad storm days before an unprecedented blizzard rolled in.

Eviction of 300-person encampment in California shows scorn for right to housing

LOS ANGELES — The last in a series of winter storms moved out of Southern California on Wednesday with a blast, bringing hail and graupel to many communities and plunging snow levels to 1,000 feet in some areas.

LOS ANGELES — Stranded residents of Lake Arrowhead and surrounding communities in the San Bernardino Mountains that were inundated with snow this weekend were hoping on Tuesday that authorities could clear blocked roads and escort residents up and down the mountains before another storm was set to strike late in…