Contractors are working around the clock inside Sound Transit's one-mile Beacon Hill tunnel, preparing for the underground station's July grand opening for service from downtown Seattle to Tukwila.

A peek inside Beacon Hill transit tunnel Originally published June 24, 2007 at 12:00 am Updated June 24, 2007 at 6:01 pm When future light-rail trains stop at Beacon Hill, the commuters there won ...

SEATTLE — The last time Sound Transit tunneled under Seattle, things did not go so well. A construction worker, Michael Merryman, died in a 2007 accident in the Beacon Hill tunnel. Soft, sandy ...

Going underground through Beacon Hill enables connecting Seattle's Sodo and Rainier Valley areas ... The university Link project includes 3.1 miles of tunnel-boring and the Capitol Hill and UW ...

[Editor's Note: The initial segment of a Sound Transit light rail line, between downtown Seattle and Tukwila, is scheduled to open in July, 2009. And Dick Sage is Sound Transit’s light-rail ...

SEATTLE - The little hole in Christine Miller-Panganiban's garden turned out to be a full-blown sinkhole, a delayed reaction to Sound Transit's light rail tunnel under Beacon Hill.

The dirt won’t be dug up until early next week, but Wednesday the champagne bottles were breaking and people were autographing the end of a giant tunnel-boring device that will dig twin tunnels ...

It was a beautiful birth. On October 11, 1972, activists connected with Seattle's Latino community entered the abandoned Beacon Hill School, claimed it, and began making demands.

A 41-year-old man was arrested after attacking a security guard at the Beacon Hill Transit Tunnel early Tuesday, Seattle police said in a blotter post.

Work continues on the massive drilling machine that will begin digging the new tunnel beneath downtown Seattle, as crews lowered the 838-ton cutterhead into the SR 99 tunneling machine's launch ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Sound Transit will pay $476,000 for a Seattle home with cracks in the foundation and holes in the yard that were caused by the tunnel for the nearby Beacon Hill light rail station.

SEATTLE -- An enormous drill broke through the east side of Beacon Hill in the city's south end this morning, almost a year after it started digging a nearly mile-long light-rail tunnel. With a ...