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 ...

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 ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation has halted digging for the repair pit to access Bertha – the SR99 tunnel machine – after archaeologists found shell deposits, WSDOT announced late ...

The Alaskan Way Viaduct sank 1.2 inches this fall next to stranded tunnel machine Bertha, as the construction team has struggled to prevent risky soil settlement. The finding by the state Department ...

Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, was shot and killed at an event in Utah. by KOMO Staff SEATTLE - Bertha is getting ready to dig the final 1,000 feet of Seattle ...

Engineers have removed the cutter head from the enormous tunneling machine nicknamed Bertha. The malfunctioning part had been stuck for more than a year in a highway project under the city's downtown.

The massive tunnel boring machine called Bertha sits at the bottom of a rescue pit Wednesday in Seattle. The machine is now in position to be torn apart so it can be repaired. State transportation ...