The Surface Transportation Board has combined its two legal offices into one and named Anika Cooper as chief counsel, the board has announced. The changes were announced Monday (Aug. 4, 2025), but ...

Union Pacific's proposed purchase of smaller rival rail operator Norfolk Southern will need to be approved by the Surface ...

Last month, Union Pacific said it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S.

Amtrak and Union Pacific have reached a settlement in their dispute over performance of the Sunset Limited and have asked the ...

More than two and a half years after Amtrak called on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to initiate an investigation ...

A trio of veteran experts will advise the Surface Transportation Board and chairman Patrick Fuchs as talk of mergers grows ...

Republican Patrick J. Fuchs on Monday was designated by President Donald Trump as chairman of the five-member Surface Transportation Board. The 36-year-old Fuchs succeeds Democrat Robert E. Primus ...

July 10, 2025 Regulatory STB: Nominations Welcome for RSTAC, RETAC The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking nominations to fill vacancies on its Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory ...

The $85 billion agreement is expected to take years to be completed, a process that includes an application with the Surface ...

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is one step closer to doubling the number of members who sit on the Surface Transportation Board. The committee convened a hearing ...

Evergy is claiming $55 million in damages after BNSF failed to deliver coal in 2022, the utility company said in a complaint ...

The federal Surface Transportation Board has granted final approval for an 85-mile rail line that backers say is needed to connect the Uinta Basin’s oil production to markets outside of Utah.