The Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) project is one of the most complex, and certainly the most costly, public-infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the United States. Often called the “Big Dig,” the ...

The civil investigation into Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff and Modern Continental Construction Co. focuses on what Attorney General Thomas Reilly called poor oversight and shoddy work on the project, a ...

The family and estate of a woman killed by a July 2006 tunnel ceiling collapse in Boston's Central Artery, or "Big Dig" project have settled with several of the remaining contractors and suppliers for ...

BOSTON The Big Dig is a Big Sieve. In a burgeoning political and engineering scandal, Boston's gleaming new underground Interstate 93 highway is riddled with hundreds of leaks. And the builders may ...

In a rare appeal by the government of a criminal sentence, a federal prosecutor argued on Nov. 7 that the punishment given two concrete company employees convicted of fraud related to Boston's $15 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...