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Washington's new Secretary of Transportation inherited a truckload of problems, from bridges being built with cracked pontoons to an unprecedented level of disciplinary notices for employees.

Two bills considered Monday were both about accountability. One forces accountability for errors by state engineers; the other would force contractors to accept all risk for big projects.

The ongoing design and oversight problems on the new 520 Bridge project have caused unprecedented fall out at the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Governor Jay Inslee said the State Department of Transportation is guilty of significant failures on the new 520 Bridge, and he said he won't stop investigating until he finds out how those costly mistakes could be made.

Our ongoing investigation "Under the Bridge" has uncovered a pattern of design flaws, construction mistakes and contract violations made in the building of the largest floating bridge in the world. At $4.1 billion, construction of Seattle's 520...

Washington's Department of Transportation may be admitting its mistakes with the 520 Bridge but it's you, the taxpayers, who will wind up paying for those mistakes.

The Washington State Department of Transportation this week admitted it had made mistakes in designing the new 520 bridge.  After successfully suing WSDOT in court, the KOMO 4 Problem Solvers have been given public records that indicate those...

Repairs and design modifications are coming to the pontoons that will support the new State Route 520 floating bridge, the state Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.

In an email to her staff Tuesday that was obtained by KOMO News, Hammond said she will leave the agency on March 8.