Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

Right now, someone in some level of your state or local government is forming an opinion on motorcycle lane splitting. They're looking at the spate of laws being enacted state by state, legalizing the ...

On August 7, 2024, a new law came into effect in Colorado that allows motorcyclists to pass or overtake stopped cars in the same lane. Riding between cars or sharing lanes had been expressly illegal ...

The image is so familiar to any motorcycle lover who has been caught in traffic jam, constant lines of vehicles crawling or being absolutely immobile, the heat coming out of the asphalt, and that ...

Minnesota is set to the become the next state to legalize lane splitting and filtering by motorcycles on July 1, 2025, following in the footsteps of California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Montana in ...

Motorcycles riding between lanes on a highway during heavy traffic(Photo courtesy of the Oregon Department of Transportation) Oregon Department of Transportation ...

A bill being considered by Oregon lawmakers would legalize lane filtering and lane splitting for motorcyclists, allowing them to drive between lanes if traffic is stopped or slowed to 10 mph or less. ...