Like flies to honey or moths to a flame, not much pulls in small children like life-size versions of their toy trucks and bulldozers and the accompanying dirt and mud. That seemed to be the case for ...

When Jim Kennedy uses his big backhoe, a crowd usually gathers. He’s an artist, you see. He runs his massive-toothed monster gouging holes in the backyards of his neighbors, putting in their pipes and ...

Guests and workers take a look at a fully assembled tunnel boring machine on Tuesday at what will be the south end of the Mill Creek Tunnel in Dallas. The next step for the machine, named Big Tex, ...