Construction workers are digging a hole that’s 10 feet wide and 125 feet deep to set a “test foundation” for the new bridge, officials said. Crews will fill that pit with steel cages and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Northbound lanes of I-405 and the ramp from I-5 south to I-405 north near the Marquam Bridge have reopened, as of about 11:05 a.m. Wednesday, after an overturned recycling metal ...

The new interstate bridge will broadly be financed in three buckets, according to McEnerny-Ogle: state funds, tolls and federal dollars. Washington and Oregon have each pledged $1 billion.

The new bridge will be earthquake-ready, so crews are digging a 10-foot-wide, 125-foot-deep hole to see how concrete supports react during a simulated seismic event.