You trust the road beneath your tires. But what if that trust is misplaced? Sinkholes are increasingly turning ordinary streets into danger zones. And the cost of ignoring them is skyrocketing.

Pennsylvania − where a search has been launched for a missing grandmother who may have fallen into a sinkhole − is one of the states where the holes are most likely in the U.S. Officials have been ...

Another day, another sinkhole in Florida. — -- Another day, another sinkhole. The latest one to take place is in Florida. A family had minutes to escape before what appeared to be a sinkhole ...

Many Florida homeowners are familiar with the danger sinkholes pose. But some areas are more risky than others.

Authorities fear a woman in western Pennsylvania who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed by a sinkhole — a phenomenon likely caused by mine subsidence. Search and rescue ...

Sinkholes, deep depressions in the ground that open up when layers of certain types of rock dissolve beneath the surface and collapse, usually form over time by a phenomenon in which groundwater ...

A new sinkhole opened up on I-80 westbound near the Route 15 overpass in Morris County while work crews were repairing an earlier sinkhole on the eastbound side of the highway. The hole opened during ...

University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. You trust the road beneath your tires ...