For nearly a decade, traffic has been zipping through Boston's Big Dig tunnels, the nation's costliest highway project that has also left a gaping financial hole in the state's transportation budget ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a ...

The Big Dig is a disaster — always was, is now, and always will be. The Big Dig is the local version of the old fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes. No one wants to admit the obvious. It cost ...

Prosecutors will drop a manslaughter charge against the only company charged in the fatal Big Dig tunnel collapse after the epoxy maker agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit. Under the ...

Big Dig contractors will pay state and federal authorities $458 million for “gross failures” in oversight and management of the $15 billion highway project, but they will avoid criminal charges or ...

Forty years ago, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis announced the start of a project that would become known as “The Big Dig,” the most expensive highway project in the nation’s history. (Fun fact ...

You've got to hand it to Boston. In 30 short years, it's built a highway that's launched countless corruption scandals, seen record cost overruns and even killed someone. The $15 billion Big Dig is ...

The head of the agency overseeing Boston’s Big Dig highway project ordered a review of the entire metro highway system Wednesday after investigators looking into the fatal collapse of concrete ceiling ...

2006-07-12 04:00:00 PDT Boston-- At least 12 tons of concrete fell from the ceiling of Boston's Big Dig late Monday night, crushing a woman to death and fueling new questions about the safety of the ...

BOSTON (AP) — The cost of the Big Dig, including interest on borrowing, has mushroomed to nearly $24.3 billion, strangling the state's ability to fund other critical transportation projects, a ...

For nearly a decade, traffic has been zipping through Boston's Big Dig tunnels, the nation's costliest highway project that has also left a gaping financial hole in the state's transportation budget ...