When I was a kid, I discovered a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that posed one of my own burning questions: How do they know the load limit on bridges? Calvin’s dad (incorrectly) tells him, “They drive ...

This article is co-published with The Texas Newsroom, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas. The devastating flooding in Houston caused ...

Elon Musk's tunneling firm, The Boring Company, wants to build transportation tunnels in cities across the country. Now Boring has turned its sites to something pretty different, flood control in ...

Previously the longest road tunnel in the world, the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland has slipped down the ranking as new projects have overtaken for length. However, the Gotthard has been in ...

The first four tunnel boring machines are coming to New Jersey to build the Gateway rail tunnel. Here's what they do and why ...

When you have a problem, there are basically three things you can do. You can ignore it. You can do something that looks like it is solving it but isn’t. Or you can solve the problem. We have a ...

DAVIS — A land developer in Davis looking to build a senior housing community is being told he must first build a toad tunnel. "They have not been able to articulate the need. They simply say, 'we ...