(Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK/A )-owned BNSF Railway said on Thursday it has reached a tentative agreement, for a five-year deal, with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) union. The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the union members, provides a 3.5% average wage increase per year over the next five...

Sept 19 (Reuters) - General Motors' ( GM ) self-driving unit Cruise said on Thursday it will begin supervised testing with up to five autonomous vehicles in fall this year in California's Bay Area. Cruise will deploy several manual mapping vehicles in Sunnyvale and Mountain View, following which the testing will start, it said in a post on social media...

Sept 19 (Reuters) - Canadian National Railway ( CNI ) will relocate its operations from Jasper, a town in the province of Alberta, to Hinton, about 100 kilometers away, said the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference in a statement. The popular tourist town, which is vulnerable to wildfires, was ravaged by one in late July. Nearly a third of Jasper's structures...

HOUSTON, Sept 17 - Some top natural gas executives on Tuesday said they believe Vice President Kamala Harris was credible when she pledged to continue to allow natural-gas fracking if she wins the Nov. 5 election to become U.S. president, since the Democratic candidate understands energy prices would rise otherwise. Fracking, a major industry in battleground state Pennsylvania, has become...