It might seem odd to write a story about the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in May. However, it’s actually a perfect time to explore a mystery surrounding the nickname of that infamous long-ago span ...

Eighty-three years ago, on Nov. 7, 1940, Galloping Gertie collapsed and fell into the Tacoma Narrows. At about 11 a.m., the 1940s version of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge came tumbling down after heavy ...

On this date in 1940, one of the most spectacular bridge collapses in U.S. history occurred in Western Washington. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," fell into the sound during a ...

On the day the first bridge over Puget Sound collapsed 75 years ago this week, a mixed-breed cocker spaniel named Tubby was the only life lost with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in what now is known as ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Peter Bortel has been diving under the Tacoma bridge for 30 years. He always wondered what he might find below the surface at 228 feet. This curiosity led him and Producer Carly Vester ...

More than a decade before engineers began planning a bridge across the Tacoma Narrows, Tacoma was building the longest transmission line span in the world over the same channel. The Cushman Dam ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is one of the epic civil engineering failures of all time. Immediately after the August 1940 grand opening of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, motorists and engineers alike ...

1940: The newly completed Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses during a windstorm. The collapse is filmed, helping it to become one of the more conspicuous engineering failures in American history. The ...