April 24-- Apr. 24--Seattle Tunnel Partners blamed a buried steel pipe for the 2013 breakdown and two-year repair of tunnel-boring machine Bertha, but the contractors lost six pipe fragments that a judge calls important evidence in a $624 million cost-overrun lawsuit against the state of Washington. What's more, the project journal kept by deputy project manager Greg Hauser during the Dec. 4, ... Read More

April 22-- Apr. 22--Concrete chunks and dust steadily tumble from the Alaskan Way Viaduct, but the old bulwark has been more stubborn than demolition companies expected. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) last week told waterfront business and tourism leaders that contractors won't be done smashing the core of the double-decker hulk between Pike Street and Yesler Way ... Read More

April 19-- Apr. 19--The Portland Aerial Tram could eventually have some company on unusual transportation mode island. Aside from figuring out how to pay for an estimated $2.7 billion light rail line through Southwest Portland to Bridgeport Village, one of the main quandaries facing planners is how to connect riders disembarking trains at Southwest Barbur Boulevard with Oregon Health & Science ... Read More

April 19-- Apr. 19--NHL Seattle president and CEO Tod Leiweke on Thursday afternoon helped guide media members through the first public tour of the massive KeyArena construction project now expected to top $900 million and vowed that its developers won't skimp on the additional upgrades that have sent costs soaring. Just two hours earlier, The Seattle Times had reported the privately funded ... Read More

April 11-- Apr. 11--The federal government has given Sound Transit early approval for extending light rail to Federal Way, indicating hundreds of millions of dollars in grants could be on the way, Sound Transit announced Wednesday. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) approved moving the project into the engineering phase of the government's funding process, making way for Sound Transit to ... Read More

April 11-- Apr. 11--President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that could make it harder for state governments to block energy-development projects such as a proposed coal-export terminal in southwest Washington that has failed to get a permit because of environmental concerns. In making the announcement, Trump lashed out at "state-level abuse of water-quality certifications." ... Read More

April 09-- Apr. 9--The Washington state Senate and House both passed $10 billion, two-year transportation spending bills in the last two weeks, with nearly $200 million dedicated to projects in the Spokane area. Most of this money is allocated toward construction of the North Spokane Corridor freeway, but funding also is reserved for rail projects, a freight facility at the airport, Spokane ... Read More

April 04-- Apr. 4--The city of Spokane Valley has filed a claim against the contractor responsible for building its state-of-the-art City Hall, alleging the structure has sustained damage because of of soil settlement under the building. The city, which contracted with Meridian Construction in 2016 to construct the $14.2 million building, claims the company breached its contract because soil ... Read More

April 01-- Apr. 1--Authorities on Monday are following up on tips they hope will lead to what caused a three-alarm fire that destroyed a Wilsonville apartment complex under construction and damaged or destroyed 20 homes nearby, displacing up to two dozen people. Sgt. Marcus Mendoza, a Clackamas County Sheriff's Office spokesman, said people have contacted the agency with tips and to let ... Read More

March 20-- Mar. 20--Alaska's new gasline team expects to have the analyses that will determine the path of the estimated $43 billion Alaska LNG Project complete in the next two months. Gov. Michael J. Dunleavy's senior policy advisor Brett Huber said March 14 that the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. should know in about 60 days whether or not the state should continue actively pursuing the ... Read More