Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rockland officials marked three years on Feb. 14 since the county Office of Buildings and Codes took over the village of Spring ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mount Vernon’s long-maligned Department of Buildings could face a takeover by New York state in August if it fails to remedy ...

AIRMONT ‒ A New York state regulatory agency is assessing the village's code enforcement program amid claims by some residents that the government has been lax in enforcing state fire and building ...

Mount Vernon's long-maligned Department of Buildings could face a takeover by New York state in August if it fails to remedy serious deficiencies in the city's enforcement of the state Fire Prevention ...

CANTON – The city's building and code enforcement efforts will be reinforced with an additional plumbing inspector, code officer and assistant prosecutor. Canton City Council on Monday authorized the ...

After Category 5 Hurricane Michael slammed into Mexico Beach, Fla., in 2018, there was a dramatic contrast in destruction: homes built at or beyond state building codes still stood, whereas many of ...

MANILA, Philippines — The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao has put building-code enforcement back under scrutiny, after the Office of Civil Defense said recovery should include a renewed ...

More than a dozen of downtown Beaumont's buildings in the worst shape are on the upswing. Since July 2024, Beaumont's Building Codes Department has been conducting a code sweep through some 40 ...