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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...