The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states.

Omaha-based Union Pacific Railroad’s announcement Tuesday that it is acquiring the Norfolk Southern Railway — a move that ...

Norfolk Southern is suing American Italian Pasta Company and its former parent company Treehouse Foods over the 2022 Columbia ...

One of the two major commercial railroads serving South Carolina would be sold under an $85 million deal announced July 29 ...

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena, who would lead the combined company, said the expanded railroad will more seamlessly get steel ...

The proposed merger, announced Tuesday, would marry Union Pacific’s vast rail network in the West with Norfolk’s rails that snake across 22 Eastern states, and the District of Columbia.

Gov. Mike Braun will allow the execution of 44-year-old Benjamin Ritchie to proceed as scheduled between midnight and sunrise Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison.

According to the National Weather Service, the last time a similarly significant dust storm struck the Chicagoland area was May 10, 1934, amid the Dust Bowl.