California’s high-speed rail project is piecing together a complex funding plan after losing billions in federal dollars under the Trump administration, drawing pushback from Central Valley cities ...

California’s high-speed rail board approved a controversial business plan as well as a contract worth up to $3.5 billion ...

It represents an unprecedented intrusion into local governance,” Central Valley mayors warned in a letter to rail officials.

But an even more controversial element of the plan was the assumption that local revenue from “tax increment financing” would ...