EVANSVILLE — The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Building Commission now has two of its top positions empty just six months after new leadership was put in place. Building Commissioner Jerry Grannan has ...

ALBANY — Inadequate enforcement of building codes has had tragic consequences in New York, with lives of occupants and first responders lost in deadly fires linked to unsafe conditions, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oak Creek officials are preparing to overhaul how the town handles code enforcement, shifting nuisance cases out of the political arena and into municipal court as part of a long-anticipated effort to ...