Mary, the tunnel boring machine that has been paving the way for the expanded Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, hit a milestone Wednesday when she finished the first of twin tunnels that are part of the ...

While Mercury News readers dubbed the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s $76 million tunnel boring machine “Shai-Hulud,” after the sand worm creatures from “Dune,” the transit ...

Rosie, the tunnel boring machine named after Akron's own Rosie the Riveter, has a sister coming to town later this year, and her name is Elaine. Named after environmental advocate Elaine Marsh ...

On a flat, windswept green plain north of Hamburg in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, a Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine is now 200 meters deep into burrowing under the Elbe River estuary.

Burrowing of a new tunnel to help carry more vehicles between Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore has resumed about 10 months after a gigantic boring machine struck an old ship anchor buried ...

CAPE CHARLES, Va. (WAVY) — The tunnel boring machine known as Chessie broke through the receiving pit on Two Island at the Thimble Shoal Channel at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Monday ...

HAMPTON, Va. — On April 17, Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine emerged through the headwall at the Hampton end of the HRBT. Exactly six months later, she's starting her next journey: creating the ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — The massive boring machine that's being used in the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion project reached a huge milestone. The machine, named "Mary," is digging the tunnel ...

In short: A tunnel boring machine in the Snowy 2.0 hydropower project has become wedged in hard rock and unable to move forward. It's the latest in a series of problems plaguing the $12 billion ...