Diesel Fuel

NEWPORT BEACH — The Catalina Flyer, a popular 500-passenger catamaran that makes daily trips to Santa Catalina Island from the Balboa Pavilion, may halt operations for a few months to buy and install a new engine that complies with a state...

Police are searching for a driver who they said fled the scene of a crash involving a semi in southern Indiana Thursday. Indiana State Police arrived to the crash scene around 12:15 a.m. on I-65 in Jackson County, just north of Seymour, Ind.  Police...

Despite fears a month ago that gas prices would reach record levels, the national average price for a gallon of regular grade has dropped for the fifth consecutive week, according to the AAA Mid-Atlantic Weekend Gas Report. Dropping from $3.78 to $3.73...

A tractor-trailer leaked about 100 gallons of diesel fuel onto Route 33 north in Bethlehem Township about a mile north of Interstate 78 just after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Emergency personnel are on scene and traffic is continuing to get past the incident...

John and Helen Taylor really know how to stretch a tank of gas. The couple squeezed 1,626 miles out of one tank of diesel fuel in a Volkswagen Passat TDI, breaking previous records. During a three-day trip, the couple set......

Diesel-powered vehicles are becoming more popular in the U.S., with sales up 35% so far this year ??? a 27% increase from 2011. As more mainstream models get diesel engines, such as the Chevy Cruze, experts believe that even more......

A father and son hauling dog food in a tractor-trailer were flown to a Baltimore hospital Thursday morning after their truck ran off Interstate 70 south of Hagerstown and plunged down a 60-foot embankment, Maryland State Police said. The driver of the...

Gas prices dropped this week nationally and locally. The national average for regular grade gas on Wednesday was $3.89 per gallon, down from $3.91 this time last week, according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report website, www.fuelgaugereport.aaa.com....

Gov. Mitch Daniels joined executives from Cummins, Inc. (NYSE: CMI) Monday to announce the company's plans to expand its high-horsepower campus here, creating up to 290 new jobs by 2015. Cummins will invest $219 million to add new warehouses,...

The average price of regular grade gas dropped this week in the Hagerstown area, despite rising once again nationally, according to the AAA Mid-Atlantic Weekend Gas Watch. Although the national average went up 3 cents a gallon this week for regular...

With gas prices continuing to soar, 70 members of Congress on Monday pushed federal regulators to stop excessive oil speculation. The House and Senate lawmakers -- all Democrats -- wrote to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to urge the agency to...

Douglas Oberhelman is the most outspoken business leader in Illinois. As CEO of Peoria-based Caterpillar, he has placed himself — and the issue of Illinois' fiscal crisis — centerstage through a series of sharp-tongued op-eds bemoaning the...