SEATTLE — Seattle’s giant drilling machine passed the halfway mark as it digs beneath the city to complete a new highway tunnel, state transportation officials said Monday. The drill known as Bertha ...

Bertha has made it to the finish line. The celebrity boring machine’s arrival near Seattle Center, some 29 months late, guarantees a Highway 99 tunnel bypassing downtown. And the Alaskan Way Viaduct ...

BEACONSFIELD, Australia – The effort to free two Australian gold miners trapped underground for 11 days entered its most delicate — and dangerous — phase on Saturday, as rescuers completed work using ...

Two rigs turning from new pads after heavy rainfall; program back on schedule. "We're back at full speed. With both rigs turning from new pads, the program is regaining momentum and delivering the ...

SEATTLE – An enormous drill broke through the east side of Beacon Hill in the city’s south end Tuesday morning, almost a year and a half after it started digging a nearly mile-long light-rail tunnel.

Crews in Oregon City hoisted 250,000 pounds of drilling equipment out of the Willamette River late last month. The machine? A drill Clackamas County Water Environment Services is calling the ...

Rescuers searching for a toddler trapped for a week in a well in southern Spain began drilling a tunnel on Saturday, in the latest bid to reach the boy as part of a massive operation to find him.

Back in the 1990s, one of the primary aqueducts that delivers water to New York City sprung a leak. It was a pretty bad leak, evidently, as ever since then, some 35 million gallons of water have ...