KSNF/KODE — The Better Business Bureau is warning folks of a new way you can fall victim to being scammed, this time while on the road. BBB officials are urging people to look out for “phantom tolls”. It’s a new way for scammers to impersonate toll collection services in order to take your money. For […]
Tens of thousands of people use the Interstate 5 Bridge every day. (Courtesy of Interstate Bridge Replacement Program) When construction starts on a new Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River in early 2026, drivers will begin paying tolls on the existing span between Washington and Oregon. That’s the plan. Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama wanted […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — If you make less than $50,000 a year and live in one of five Hampton Roads cities, you could soon pay nothing each time you travel through either the Downtown or Midtown tunnels. Monday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, (R-Va.) signed the state’s $279 billion two-year budget, which includes $101 million for toll […]
The first days of Haiti’s rainy season continue to prove destructive and deadly for the country’s vulnerable population. The death toll from heavy rains has risen to 17, while the number of homes flooded has doubled to more than 4,000, the country’s Civil Protection authorities said. Most of the destruction has occurred in the northern […]
New York is finally taking steps to curb a lingering pitfall of its transition to cashless tolling: drivers racked with big debts for unpaid toll bills they may never have seen. State lawmakers have pitched policy changes for six years to help those toll payers, only for two governors — Andrew Cuomo and then Kathy […]
One driver used an empty snack-sized bag of Cheetos to hide the first few characters on his license plate from the peering lens of a tolling camera. A motorcyclist reached his hand back to cover his license plate as he crossed through a toll. Snippets of carefully-placed electrical tape can transform letters and numbers — […]
Drivers traveling to Massachusetts from New Hampshire might have to start paying a little more as the state is toying with the idea of using polls at the border. “At a recent event the Secretary was conveying that we need to have difficult conversations about how to make our transportation system work best for everyone,” […]
(Bloomberg) — After facing more than a decade of civil disobedience, the rulers of Gauteng — the province that’s home to three of South Africa’s five biggest cities — have caved in and will switch off the electronic tolls on its key highways just before midnight Thursday. Most Read from Bloomberg Since the system started […]
Mar. 31—A pickup truck crashed into a tollbooth on Interstate 95 in Hampton on Saturday afternoon causing the truck to catch fire, New Hampshire State Police said. The driver, Patrick Jones, 43, of South Portland, Maine, had serious injuries and was taken to Portsmouth Regional Hospital. A child who was unharmed also was brought to […]
Israeli troops have fired on a large crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City, witnesses said, killing more than 100 people and taking the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials. Israeli officials acknowledged that troops opened fire, […]
Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City, witnesses have said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials. Hospital workers initially reported an Israeli strike on the crowd but witnesses later […]
“Does this look like a used car lot?” Anne Smith said as she prepared coffee in the kitchen of her North Richland Hills home. The home of Anne and her husband Dale — former lead pastor of Colleyville Presbyterian Church — is not a used car lot, but the charges from the North Texas Tollway […]