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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 Daily Journal ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...