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 ...

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 ...

Boston’s Big Dig is legendary — for its politics, cost overruns and rage-inducing traffic snarls. But most Bostonians don’t remember that the project emerged from an anti-highway movement that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON — The Big Dig, Boston’s newly opened $14.6-billion highway tunnel project, has a seriously flawed wall that contractors knew about as early as 1999, and is riddled with hundreds of smaller ...

BOSTON — When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city’s history: The Big Dig, the nation’s most complex and costly highway project, ...