SEATTLE -- A machine digging a highway tunnel underneath Seattle that has sat idle since December likely won't begin working again for another six months, an official with the contractor said Friday.

Bertha has finished digging through five of the 10 zones needed for completion of the new SR 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle. Now in zone 6, it will soon dig along side the Pike Place Market. The ...

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 ...

SEATTLE -- The Highway 99 tunnel boring machine Bertha will not resume digging anytime soon. The state said Thursday it will not let Seattle Tunnel Partners resume work until it gets better answers as ...

Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP) knew an 8-inch steel pipe was in Bertha’s path two years before the tunnel boring machine chewed through it, according to a new suit filed by Washington state. STP says ...