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

CAPE CHARLES, Va. (WAVY) — The tunnel boring machine known as Chessie broke through the receiving pit on Two Island at the Thimble Shoal Channel at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Monday, the CBBT ...

HAMPTON, Va. — On April 17, Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine emerged through the headwall at the Hampton end of the HRBT. Exactly six months later, she's starting her next journey: creating the twin ...

A colossal project to reduce traffic in the underground tunnels connecting the Virginia cities of Norfolk and Hampton just had a big breakthrough — literally. Since 1957, the two cities have been ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — The massive boring machine that's being used in the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion project reached a huge milestone. The machine, named "Mary," is digging the tunnel for ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Mary, the tunnel boring machine for the new Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, completed the first new tunnel at the HRBT’s North Island Wednesday morning, a major milestone ...

Students across our state will have a chance to name the world’s largest tunnel boring machine. Next summer, the machine will begin work underneath downtown Seattle making way for the viaduct ...

Chinese engineers have managed to turn disaster into a masterful engineering feat by rescuing ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The huge boring tool affectionately known as 'Chessie is once again digging through the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. "So think about a four-story building as long as a football ...

Cross passages between both bores of London's 0.7-mile Silvertown tunnel are nearing completion in frozen ground, marking the end of excavations on the River Thames crossing. The $1.5-billion ...