Experts from the manufacturer in Japan are due in Seattle next week to explain exactly how to repair “Bertha,” the stalled tunnel boring machine. The earth moving work beneath downtown Seattle somehow ...

The Dori Monson Show listeners have spoken. The boring machine called Bertha will now be known as “Christine.” Monson said it was time for a new name as Bertha was named in honor of former Seattle ...

SEATTLE (AP) – Experts say they’ve at least partially solved the mystery of what’s been blocking a massive tunnel-boring machine beneath downtown Seattle for the past month: a steel pipe. The $80 ...

SEATTLE -- The contractors drilling a tunnel under downtown Seattle say so much groundwater is flowing into the tunnel, it will likely be January before they can look at what's blocking their boring ...

And a year ago this week, Bertha came to a grinding halt. That would be Bertha, the nickname for the world's largest tunneling machine that was boring a new highway tunnel under Seattle's downtown. As ...

SEATTLE – The Highway 99 tunnel boring machine Bertha is at its final stop before tunneling under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Bertha reached a planned maintenance stop under Yesler Way. It could stay ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - The world's largest-diameter tunneling machine could resume drilling under downtown Seattle in late November after repairs are completed, allowing a central part of a years-delayed ...