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Housing starts rose 2.8% in January while building permits fell 4.9%, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

In the trucking dispatch room of the future, the only sound is of cooling fans whirring inside computer casings.  Gone are the cubicles that once honeycombed the floor, as are the chattering dispatchers who once staffed them.

A group including motor carriers, businesses, several members of Congress and a conservative public interest legal foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal appeals court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s formal finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to public health.

NEW YORK – After a trial run that began last spring, a section of Broadway in New York City will remain permanently closed to traffic.

A new economic index based on diesel fuel purchasing in the trucking industry fell in January after an increase in December, the index’s authors said.

John Ruan, founder of Ruan Transportation Management Systems, died Saturday, the company said. He was 96.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region grew this month at the fastest pace in four months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.

Wright Express Corp. said that its fourth-quarter profit fell to $12.1 million, or 31 cents per share, compared with $65.2 million, or $1.66, a year ago.

The mid-Atlantic region is the latest area to be reminded of Mother Nature’s capriciousness and unrelenting fury, as a seemingly endless string of major snowstorms has dumped record amounts from Virginia to New Jersey.