If you've ever wondered why it is so difficult to build infrastructure in this country, why these projects take so much time and cost so much money, there's a podcast that can offer some clues. It's ...

Boston's Big Dig Is Big on Safety To the Editor: "Upheaval and Calm as Big Dig Transforms Boston" (front page, April 28), while a comprehensive story on Boston's Central Artery-Third Harbor Tunnel ...

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 ...

A lawsuit that claimed tolls on the Mass Pike were being used illegally to pay for the massive Big Dig highway project was dismissed by the state's highest court. State contractors are boring into the ...

Under the mid-July sun, parents looked on with expressions of joy Saturday as their children, some of whom are cancer survivors, climbed in and operated excavators and boom and scissor lifts in the ...

It is not every day a person gets the chance to operate heavy construction equipment just for fun — while also fighting cancer. Starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, the second annual Big Dig of Northern ...

The only company charged with manslaughter after a woman died in a Boston tunnel collapse in 2006 has agreed to pay the state and city $16 million in exchange for the charge being dropped. By Abby ...