Mexico announced on Wednesday it will build a US$1.27 billion tunnel that will be almost 39 miles (62 kilometers) long and 7 yards (meters) in diameter, to help solve the centuries-old drainage problem of the nation’s capital.

A smuggling tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding 18, Palestinian security and hospital officials said Saturday.

A Palestinian health official says a tunnel used to smuggle goods across the Gaza-Egypt border has collapsed, killing two Palestinians.Health Ministry official Moawiya Hassanain said Thursday that five people were pulled out of the tunnel alive.Local...

A dump truck spilled a load of mud inside a traffic tunnel, causing a chain-reaction crash of 23 vehicles on Friday in suburban New Orleans. Eighteen people were taken to hospitals, including a woman in labor.The dump truck driver fled the scene,...

Fire crews rescued four construction workers Thursday after they became trapped in a flooded river tunnel.Kevin Shirley, deputy chief of the fire department in Kansas City, Kan., said the men were working on a flood-control project, traveling through a...

Construction workers are trapped in a Kansas tunnel used for flood control after their boat capsized inside it.The Kansas City Star reports that two workers have been rescued but two others remain in the tunnel connecting Turkey Creek and the Kansas...

An underground tunnel collapsed early Wednesday near Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip, burying a Palestinian smuggler alive, a security official said.Mohammed el-Bashiti and five others had nearly finished expanding the tunnel from Gaza into Egypt...

The divers live in a windowless, pressurized chamber for weeks at a time. They descend 700 feet _ greater than the height of the Space Needle _ to toil for 12-hour shifts in dark, murky water.Then there’s the helium they have to breathe to survive at...

Four suspected drug traffickers were sentenced to up to 16 years in prison for digging and operating a tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico, prosecutors said Wednesday.Rigoberto Gaxiola Medina, whom authorities say is linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel, was...

A burglar who tunneled under a wall to access a Coquille tire shop did not have a good exit plan. The burglar was unable to remove anything because the tires were too large to fit through the mouth of the hole.Officers received a report earlier this week...