Fixing former California wagon trail could cost taxpayers billions and destroy ancient redwoods (opens in new tab)

California taxpayers are staring down a multibillion-dollar price tag to rescue one of the state’s most unstable highways, a collapsing coastal stretch that is quite literally sliding into the ocean. The California Department of Transportation is now advancing a plan to bore a 1.1-mile tunnel through redwood forest to bypass the deteriorating “Last Chance Grade”...