This Month in History is a recurring feature in the La Jolla Light highlighting local happenings from yesteryear. If you are aware of historical events from any year in La Jolla history that deserve ...

“To shorten a bend in the Tuckasegee River just west of Dillsboro, the (Western North Carolina Railroad) planned Cowee Tunnel. Each day hundreds of convicts, camped along the east bank of the stream, ...

Stephen Kinzer is one of our most distinguished and honored journalists, having reported from locales as varied as Turkey and Guatemala. He has spent the last several years writing books about the ...

On December 21, 1910, The Newhall Auto Tunnel was opened connecting a path for automobiles to travel from the San Fernando ...

(CBS DETROIT) - On this day in 1930, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel opened to public traffic. The tunnel is an international connection between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, and is the only ...

In the mountains of Peru a tunnel-boring machine named “Pacha Mama” is grinding through the heart of the Andes under rock as deep as 6,890 ft. It is carving away at a 20.2-kilometer-long tunnel ...

PHOENIX -- An incomplete tunnel found stretching from Mexico to Arizona appears to be "the most sophisticated tunnel in U.S. history," authorities said. The tunnel intended for smuggling ran from a ...

I read with interest Jacques Kelly’s history of the Baltimore and Potomac tunnel (“Baltimore’s oldest rail tunnel presents lesson in urban infrastructure,” Feb. 4). The tunnel plays into our family’s ...

PHOENIX -- An incomplete tunnel found stretching from Mexico to Arizona appears to be "the most sophisticated tunnel in U.S. history," authorities said. The tunnel intended for smuggling ran from a ...