A tunnel-boring machine stalled beneath China’s Yangtze River while excavating a highway tunnel, forcing engineers to complete an unprecedented mid-river docking operation over two years.

It sounds like something from a science fiction movie: giant machines digging enormous holes 100 feet underground. But it's been happening right here in D.C. DC Water has been using machines to build ...

A 700-foot-long tunnel boring machine named Mary is being assembled in Washington, D.C., to dig a 5.5-mile stormwater and ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- DC Water named the third tunnel boring machine "Lucy" Tuesday during a christening and ceremony to bless the machinery. A large tunnel about 100 feet below the ground will be ...

DC Water took a major step Tuesday in the Potomac River Tunnel Project, lowering the cutterhead for ‘Mary,’ the tunnel boring ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After receiving more than 650 submissions to name a tunnel boring machine (TBM), the Clackamas County Board of County Commissioners has finally selected a winner. The newest ...

SEATTLE — MudHoney, a tunnel boring machine named for a Seattle grunge legend, has finished its journey from Ballard to Wallingford as part of the Ship Canal Water Quality Project, a partnership ...

Water is one of the biggest challenges to Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop project, despite Southern Nevada’s dry climate. When Boring Co.’s tunneling machines are burrowing under the Las Vegas Valley, they ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- The Metropolitan Water District has a new tunnel boring machine, her name is Rachel Carson. It's the name chosen by Moreno Valley third grader, Jessica Wang. "The name I ...

A boring machine needs a name. No, not boring — boring!Howard County is holding a naming contest for the boring machine that will be used in Ellicott City's north tunnel project.The tunnel will help ...