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Crews have turned over four more Vit Plant buildings at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington to startup testing.

The son of a pioneer bush pilot in Alaska, structural engineer John Aho spent decades working toward earthquake preparedness. 

Trash heaps. Ocean trips. Rocks for jocks. Nurture, nature—and even football—informed Joel Cesare’s pursuit of planetary sustainability.

Oprah fans may only know of Stacy Smedley as a sperm-donor baby who met her DNA half-brother in 2008, thanks to the talk show.

Replacing flood-ravaged spillways at Oroville Dam in just 18 months over two brief construction seasons required the focus and tenacity of many.

A project with the name “5th and Union” blends in with the 89 other shoring and drilling jobs on John Matyasovszky’s chronological list of work since 2005—when the Malcolm Drilling Co. senior superintendent began as a laborer.

Sound Transit opened its first light rail operation in the Seattle area in 2009.

The 7,200-ft-long stretch of track that runs along Interstate 90 on Mercer Island includes a special construction component.

Take a look at five of the larger stories to watch in Washington and Oregon in 2019.

More than 90,000 vehicles traveling the viaduct each day will need to scatter to limited options.