They allege that the work to free a trapped boring machine taking place 10 metres away from their home was to blame. The city could not confirm if the work led to the flooding. (Aizick Grimman/CBC) ...

The trapped boring machine is 1.5 metres in diameter and five metres in length. City contractors will attempt to remove it in pieces from the tunnel below Old Mill Drive in the coming weeks.

Then came machines with gasoline and diesel engines. And with this invention came the ability to actually install the casing while boring. "The first auger-boring machines drilled the hole first and ...

The removal of a boring machine trapped under a street in Toronto’s west end could cost taxpayers up to $25 million, according to documents from the City of Toronto.

Watercare’s micro-tunnel boring machine (m-TBM) has begun its 600m journey under a stretch of Queen Street to lay a new wastewater pipe as part of the Midtown Wastewater Diversion project.

In this photo made with a fish-eye wide-angle lens, the massive boring machine known as Bertha that is drilling a two-mile tunnel to replace Seattle's viaduct is shown before the project began ...

A rod-like boring pipe Enbridge left in the Straits of Mackinac bottom after it broke last fall is about five times longer than the Canadian oil transport giant initially told state regulators ...