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Following a nationwide trend in rising prices at the pump, diesel topped $4 per gallon this week.

Washington state is known for many things: great coffee, grunge music, gloomy weather and —according to a new report —the most pothole complaints in the country.

A bill restructuring Postal Service operations with an eye toward transparency and financial stability cleared the House Feb. 8 in a largely bipartisan vote.

Later this month, you may find a survey in your mailbox from an unlikely source: BTS.

In response to the nationwide shortage of truck drivers, the Transportation Department is relaxing its ban on under-21 interstate trucking as part of a pilot program.

The Transportation Department’s multi-year plan to curb traffic deaths includes a number of new safety standards for the trucking industry, such as mandating the use of automatic breaking technologies.

Trucking companies are paying substantially more at the pump as diesel prices continue to tick upward, driven largely by spiraling crude oil costs.

The Labor Department and the Transportation Department are pushing a series of new initiatives aimed at mitigating the nation’s crippling shortage of truck drivers.

Diesel fuel prices crept downward this week, shedding .002 cents to $3.613 per gallon, federal data show.

Rates for the heavily trafficked Pennsylvania Turnpike jumped 5 percent for all vehicles on Jan. 2, according to a release from its controller.