The City of Jacksonville received a grant to start the engineering and design phase for relocating the Amtrak train back to LaVilla.

Foes of the California’s High-Speed Rail project were heartened when Gov. Gavin Newsom in his State of the State address last February called for “trimming” it back to a simple Central Valley route.

A shiny new locomotive is rolling down the track in Irvine Regional Park. With dozens of children, some in striped train-engineer caps and overalls, their parents and grandparents, OC Parks officials ...