Transportation

The automobile still is king in the Spokane Valley, but transit could have a bigger impact in future years, Barnes said.

If pay-by-the-mile insurance is as successful as its supporters in Oregon anticipate, the dynamics of the marketplace will take over, giving more consumers a chance to save money — and make the world a bit better — by doing something that most Americans have despaired at ever being able to attain: spending less time behind the wheel.

"There will be a better selection of flights, which will benefit our customers in those markets," Connell said. "And the benefit for Delta will be a more efficient hub, with planes moving at fuller capacity."

Denver-based carrier dropping Mesa By The Denver Post and The Associated Press Frontier Airlines today dumped Mesa Airlines as its regional carrier, signing a 12-year agreement with Seattle-based Horizon Air that begins Jan. 1. Horizon,…

A lone passenger disembarks a Big Sky Airlines flight Wednesday at the Great Falls International AIrport. Although Essential Air Service money is not available to the Great Falls airport, it is the lifeblood of Big…

"I’d like to think that the Segway will become a piece of our infrastructure," he said. "Every new technology starts out as a novelty, and then things usually turn out differently than expected."

It is even possible in some cities to get by without a car on most days… What does it take to make such developments work?

In 2000, 35 million Americans, or 12.4 percent of the total U.S. population, were over age 65, and almost 4.5 million (or 1.6 percent of the total population) were over age 85. By 2030, the…

The study said the Empire Builder has a total economic impact in Montana of nearly $14 million.

"Abandoning the federal government’s responsibility to support Amtrak will mean certain doom for passenger rail service in Montana, but, more importantly, it will have devastating economic effects on the Montana communities that Amtrak serves," Baucus wrote.