The cost of the Big Dig, including interest on borrowing, has mushroomed to nearly $24.3 billion, strangling the state's ability to fund other critical transportation projects, a legislative oversight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — It is the most expensive highway construction project in the nation’s history -- and possibly the most miserable marriage of residents and redevelopment. Replacing an antiquated, elevated ...

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, ...