You love your home. It's your personal haven, your biggest investment. Yet beneath that familiar comfort lurks something most ...

Building a bedroom in the basement without an egress window is a serious code violation and a major safety hazard. Many homeowners think they can simply convert their basement into a bedroom by adding ...

One would think that holding property owners accountable for the state of their buildings would be considered “the low hanging fruit” when figuring out ways to turn neighborhoods around. But for far ...

A church-run homeless shelter was cited for dozens of fire and building code violations last month and will need to install sprinklers, alarms, fire-safe doors among other upgrades or risk fines and ...

Kevin McOsker from the International Code Council joined us for a Q&A on building safety, and some of the most common safety mistakes made in construction. McOsker, vice president of technical ...

Wilkes-Barre city officials found dozens of health, building and motor vehicle code violations during walks through two neighborhoods last week and shut down a pet food facility as well. Council ...

The county was told to take over code enforcement in the wake of the fatal Evergreen Court fire in Spring Valley. “What we inherited was nothing short of a crisis — a village plagued by illegal ...