A sinkhole opened up at the intersection of Lombard and Gough streets in San Francisco Tuesday morning, the fire department said. The sinkhole is estimated to be about 5 feet by 4 feet in size ...

the San Francisco Water Power Sewer department says the hole in question was actually a pothole, not a sinkhole as the fire department initially had been told. We've updated this story accordingly.

"[The city] had time to give me two parking tickets in my own driveway and they don't have time to fix this sinkhole," said neighbor Justin Anderson.

The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth. In recent weeks, huge sinkholes, several meters (feet) deep, have led the municipal ...

This is what happens when the government rather than the private sector plays the lead role in developing anything.

Update, July 5, 11:30 a.m.: The southern closure of Highway 1 returned to Limekiln State Park near Big Sur at 8 a.m. Tuesday after sinkhole repairs wrapped up, according to Caltrans. Caltrans ...

Hopes faded for a 74-year-old man in Japan whose truck was swallowed by a sinkhole as a difficult rescue operation entered its third night Thursday, with the chasm widening and locals urged to ...