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 ...

December has not been kind to Seattle's enormous tunneling project. And not just this December. A year ago this month, North America's largest tunnel-boring machine got stuck just 10 percent of the ...

Seattle’s giant drilling machine has passed the halfway mark as it digs beneath the city to complete a new highway tunnel. The Washington Department of Transportation said Monday that the drill known ...

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 ...

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After a two-year delay for repairs, the giant tunnel-boring machine has completed its mission far beneath the city's streets. Bertha Finally Breaks Through In Seattle Updated at 4 p.m. ET It was the ...

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 ...

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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 ...