OAKLAND — At the same time Caltrans was receiving the hefty steel anchor rods that would later snap on the new Bay Bridge, the agency appeared to have growing concerns about the integrity of some high ...

A recently released California Department of Transportation investigation, which concluded that testing errors and falsifications of data did not affect the safety of state bridges, revealed for the ...

At least two agencies have been investigating Caltrans' Foundation Testing Branch - whose technician, Duane Wiles, falsified bridge tests - for financial fraud. In a recent interview, Robert Pieplow, ...

Facing allegations in a recent Sacramento Bee story that there were serious flaws in foundation testing that threatened the safety and integrity of the new east span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans ...

It’s expensive, but it could work. Engineers this week are putting layers of tiny white chips along Highway 50 near the airport. The placement of the chips, a compound called alumina, is part of a ...

Caltrans top managers on Monday expressed confidence in the structural safety of the partially built new Bay Bridge despite the firing of a bridge quality control technician for falsifying data on ...