Stretching over 46,876 miles, the United States Interstate Highway System connects nearly every corner of the nation, but behind the asphalt and interchanges lies a web of ambitions, controversies, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 2, 1956. What we now know as Interstate 44 and Interstate 70 were actually historic milestones for both Missouri and the greater United States.

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 29 of that year, funded the Interstate Highway System. Joining this transcontinental system, the Interregional ...

Highways 5 and 65 in Des Moines are slated to become part of the interstate system, pending federal approval and resolution of agricultural traffic concerns. The redesignation, potentially as ...