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 ...

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 ...

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 ...