Contractors building a new highway tunnel under downtown Seattle have started digging a 120-foot pit to rescue a stalled boring machine named Bertha. Seattle Tunnel Partners also is pumping out ...

SEATTLE (AP) - Digging resumed Thursday in a pit near the Seattle waterfront that will be used to repair a huge machine that broke down while trying to bore a highway tunnel under the city. The ...

Seattle Tunnel Partners has started digging the circular pit that will allow crews access to the broken tunnel digging machine. The operation started Friday, west of the Alaskan Way Viaduct near Pier ...

Bertha, Seattle's troubled tunnel machine, is on the move after being stalled for more than a year. The giant boring device that is trying to dig a new State Route 99 beneath the city started drilling ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state transportation officials said digging was expected to resume on Tuesday on a pit needed to salvage a $3.1 billion roadway overhaul in Seattle, deciding the ...

Workers have started digging a pit to get at and fix Bertha, the waterfront tunneling machine, the state Department of Transportation reported Monday. Seattle Tunnel Partners rolled an excavator in on ...

Seattle Tunnel Partners have resumed digging a repair pit to access the stalled tunnel drilling machine sitting idle under the waterfront. State archaeologists have determined shell deposits ...

SEATTLE (AP) - The Washington state Transportation Department says the contractor building a highway tunnel under downtown Seattle has finished digging a 120-foot-deep pit that can be used to access ...

Crews are now drilling a launch pit to hold the massive tunnel-boring machine for the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement project. The project will be using the largest diameter tunnel boring machine ever ...