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Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added to an immigration bill.

The Chicago Transit Agency has begun replacing hundreds of contract security guards with full- and part-time CTA customer-service employees.

Two men have been arrested in connection to an al-Qaida supported plot to derail Canadian passenger trains. 

A security researcher and trained commercial pilot says that an Android app can be used, at least theoretically, to hack a plane.

In San Francisco, cable cars average about an accident a month and routinely rank among the most accident-prone mass transportation modes in the country per vehicle mile traveled annually.

A 61-year-old Frenchman impersonated a pilot and sat in the cockpit of a US Airways plane before a scheduled flight from Philadelphia International Airport.

Despite growing opposition from airlines and industry unions to the TSA's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes, the agency's head said he is not backing down.

Airline and airport workers (and vendors) require access to sensitive and restricted areas during the normal course of their required duties.

A federal judge has ruled that DHS must release two safety reports it conducted in the 2000s evaluating the radiation safety of body-scanning machines.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.