If you've followed The Oregonian's coverage of the $307.5 million Sellwood Bridge replacement project, chances are you've come across unfamiliar words as poetic-sounding as they are puzzling. Bent.

Crews working on the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge are well on their way to getting the first foundation anchored in the Narrows, engineers reported Tuesday. As of Tuesday evening, workers had attached ...

The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is filled with death, disease, and controversy. The main architect died before the bridge was even built, and several workers died in the process. Tools and ...

If you cross over the Sellwood Bridge in the next day, or pass within view of the construction zone where crews are working to build a new bridge, look down. Or, if you don't have the occasion to ...

The new Narrows Bridge was built just 200 feet south of the existing bridge. Complex stratigraphy, diverse topography, fault-zones, landslide-prone slopes, contaminated soils and endangered species.

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Construction of the Tacoma caisson of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge is five weeks behind schedule, according to a report released Monday by the state Department of Transportation. But bridge builders ...

The late US Rep. John Robert Lewis made his final journey on Sunday across the famous bridge in Selma, Alabama, where the towering civil rights figure helped lead a march for voting rights in 1965 ...

Two men standing on a high catwalk, surveying the construction of the Brooklyn BridgeMuseum of the City of New York/Getty Images The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is filled with death, disease, and ...

The late US Rep. John Robert Lewis made his final journey on Sunday across the famous bridge in Selma, Alabama, where the towering civil rights figure helped lead a march for voting rights in 1965 ...