Transportation

Frontier Airlines announced today that it plans to double the frequency of flights it offers between Des Moines and its Denver hub, beginning in June. The airline began offering six weekly round-trip flights between the …

Bombardier Inc said today it will sell as many as 120 aircraft to Warren Buffett’s NetJets Inc., a deal that could be worth more than $6.7 billion and which sent its shares soaring 8.3 percent. …

Water Street will be closed to traffic from Walnut Street to Court Avenue on Wednesday from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a city sewer project. Access to the Polk County Administration Building parking lot …

David Rose has been appointed by Gov. Terry Branstad to a four-year term on the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Transportation Commission. Rose, a native of Clinton, will fill the seat held by Wayne Sawtelle, whose …

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) will shorten its D-Line route as proposed legislation threatens to cut state funding for the service. The downtown shuttle will continue to operate on its east-west route …

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) unveiled its final fiscal year 2012 budget at a public meeting on Tuesday, where it projected a $1.35 million budget gap.

Assuming no changes were made at …

One auto manufacturer reported good news today while another again deals with bad news, according to Reuters.

General Motors Co. (GM) posted a profit of $4.7 billion for 2010, its first full-year profit since 2004, …

Gov. Terry Branstad today appointed Sioux City native Charese Yanney to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Transportation Commission.

Yanney is a former teacher who is now a partner at Guarantee Roofing, Siding and Insulation Co. …

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) passed its fiscal year 2012 budget unanimously last night.

The budget projects a $1.35 million budget gap for the fiscal year, to be closed by using money …

Oil rose to its highest price in more than two years as Libya’s violent uprising threatened to disrupt exports from Africa’s third-biggest supplier and spread to other oil-producing nations in the Middle East, Bloomberg reported. …