Oil leaking from a cargo ship that struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has spread throughout the bay and is threatening a majestic stretch of the California coastline, the Coast Guard said Thursday. Complete Story...
A bridge under construction in a new development in Dubai collapsed Thursday, killing seven workers and injuring 15, police said.
Oil that leaked from a cargo ship after it bumped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has closed five beaches and is washing up as far as 40 miles north of San Francisco, the Coast Guard said Thursday.
Two years ago, cities on the opposite sides of Biloxi Bay clashed over blueprints for a wider, taller bridge to replace a highway span demolished by Hurricane Katrina's storm surge.
A grand jury will not charge anyone in a police blockade that kept hundreds of evacuees from crossing a Mississippi River bridge on foot after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, authorities said Wednesday.
The crumpled steel beams and shattered concrete of the Interstate 35W bridge are gone from the Mississippi River. These days, it's the process of replacing the span that's in disarray.
Rescue workers pulled out two more bodies Sunday from the rubble of collapsed overpass in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi, increasing the death toll to six, an official said.
Officials closed a major Mississippi River bridge between Tennessee and Arkansas for nine hours Monday after a pier under a small approach span settled several inches overnight.
Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons.
Communist authorities have banned most state media from reporting on the deadly collapse of a bridge in southern China, with local officials punching and chasing reporters from the scene, reporters said Friday.
Just like Americans themselves, the nation's roads and bridges are carrying much more weight today.
President Bush signed legislation on Monday that directs $250 million to rebuild the Minnesota bridge that was destroyed in last week's deadly collapse.
After five exhausting days searching for victims of an interstate bridge collapse, rescue coordinators are turning to the Navy divers considered the best.
More than 100 cars and trucks and a school bus crawling bumper-to-bumper on a bridge that suddenly crashed into the Mississippi River seemed like a recipe for a massive death count. But on Friday came what this city's fire chief called a miraculous turn of events: the prospect that relatively few lives were lost.
Divers at a collapsed interstate bridge prepared Friday to resume a painstaking search that has found five bodies so far, though authorities lowered the number of missing, once feared as many as 30, to eight.
It was 5:40 p.m. when Melissa Hughes wrapped up work at the warehouse she manages. She piloted her red Ford Escort through the streets that lead to I-35W, eager to get home and see her 3-month-old daughter.
More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.
Governors around the nation scrambled Thursday to conduct bridge inspections, ordering engineers to review the safety of thousands of structures a day after a span over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis.
President Bush on Thursday offered his condolences to victims of the highway bridge collapse in Minneapolis and said the federal government would help ensure the 40-year-old span is rebuilt as soon as possible.
Dennis and Jamie Winegar were stuck in late rush-hour traffic when the Mississippi River bridge beneath them began to shake. Their nephew yelled, "It's an earthquake!"
An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday, pitching dozens of cars 60 feet into the water and killing at least seven people.
A construction worker who fell 50 feet when a highway overpass he was working on collapsed remained in serious condition Wednesday, as officials tried to determine what caused the structure to give way.
Fireworks displays launched from three points around the Mackinac Bridge capped a three-day 50th birthday celebration for one of the world's longest suspension bridges.
Because an ordinance intended to keep predators away from children made it nearly impossible for them to find housing, five convicted sex offenders are living under a noisy highway bridge with the state's grudging approval.
More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march — and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break political barriers.