Historically, passenger rail funding has had legislative champions from each party in the House and Senate that successfully ...

The Amtrak Cascades route carried 941,727 passengers in 2024, Amtrak said in a statement at its website. In its December service update, the Washington State Department of Transportation reported ...

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the northern and central Oregon Cascades. Starting Friday morning at ... Snow levels will likely drop to around 500 feet or less and ...

SEATTLE — Heavy snow was falling in the Cascades once again Friday. This means winter driving across all of the passes with rapidly changing conditions. Washington State Department of ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- "Winter weather is back" at Mt. Bachelor, the resort reported Friday, with about 10 inches of snow falling in the past 24 hours, making for a big fresh-powder weekend ahead ...

The Amtrak Cascades interregional passenger rail service, which links the Pacific Northwest, appears to be gaining new momentum, with record-breaking ridership and forthcoming service improvements.

And while most Oregonians rely on water that originates in the Cascades, the supply is not infinite, he emphasized. A shrinking snowpack due to climate change could eventually deplete even an ...

Terrifying video shows the horrific crash that took place in Auburn, WA, over the weekend when a speeding Amtrak train collided with a semi-truck. The incident occurred Saturday at roughly 10:18 a ...

We know there’s a lot of water here, over 2.5 meters of precipitation in the Western Cascades per year. And previous researchers have tried to estimate the size of the aquifer by measuring what ...

The engineer of Amtrak Train No. 22, the Texas Eagle, assists an employee climbing aboard P42DC No. 17 on Jan. 30, 2019. The train was stopped at Shirley, Ill., with mechanical issues related to ...

Although a boon for the parched West, the aquifer is fed by snowpack, and scientists estimate dramatic reductions in snow in the Cascades in the coming decades. While this is a concerning scenario ...