Hopes of reopening Interstate 80 quickly have been dashed. A section of the eastbound lanes remains closed due to a 40-foot ...

Another sinkhole opened along a major New Jersey interstate Monday morning, forcing state officials to close the road’s eastbound lanes — just two months after another sinkhole shuttered it at ...

WHARTON, N.J. -- Interstate 80 was closed in Wharton, New Jersey on Monday as crews returned to the scene of a previous sinkhole on the highway.

State Department of transportation crews worked through Tuesday night’s snow storm on the 11-foot by 11-foot sinkhole that has closed I-80’s eastbound lanes in Wharton since Monday.

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

Conditions worsened Monday night at a depression in a center lane of I-80 east in Wharton when it opened up into a sinkhole while Department of Transportation crews were working on it, officials said.

Another sinkhole in Wharton forced the closure of all eastbound lanes on Interstate 80 Monday at Exit 34 for New Jersey Route 15. In December a sinkhole closed I-80 for four days in the same town.

The sinkhole in Yashio city is believed to be caused by a sewer rupture A truck cabin that was swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan two weeks ago has been located in a nearby sewer pipe, authorities say.

The city initially blamed a 100-year-old sewer line but later ruled it out, leaving the cause of the sinkhole a mystery. The business owners claim they've spent $1 million in legal fees ...

leaving the cause a mystery. Then the conservancy told restaurateur Katherine Drolett to get back to work. She didn’t. Since there was never a definitive answer to what caused the sinkhole, her ...