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The North Carolina House of Representatives has approved a bill that would prohibit local governments from using zoning ordinances to regulate building-design elements for single-family homes or duplexes
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The oil stopped flowing two years ago. Much of the money hasn’t started flowing yet. And the Gulf Coast, some reports say, is still hurting from the effects of BP’s disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowout.
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Homeowners at “Somerset Run” in Franklin Township, New Jersey, have been complaining since 2003 that their Energy Star rated houses are drafty and expensive to heat. And they’re still not happy.
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A New Mexico court has ruled that the state board setting construction rules can’t overturn a building code without providing a reason.
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Define the problems you will be responsible for and set clear procedures for final payment
Carelessness helped create Florida’s Chinese drywall disaster. Cleaning it up is a job for a very careful builder.
A Colorado general contractor’s day in court is approaching in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by relatives of a family poisoned by carbon monoxide at a ski chalet.
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Connecticut authorities have ordered 27 jobs to a halt in the state because employers were paying employees as subcontractors and failing to obtain workers comp coverage.
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From small-time scams to major misappropriation of relief money, government is on the lookout for crooked use of rebuilding funds.
Hawaiians can act as their own general contractor without any license under current law. But that may change this year.
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The NFIP paid a Staten Island homeowner $10,000 for flood damage to her first floor. Now they say the space was a basement — and they want their money back.
Sand dunes saved some houses from Sandy's storm surge. But some beachfront homeowners still won't sign off on raising the dunes.
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Three years in the Federal pen: that’s the sentence for cooking the books in insurance restoration work.
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North Carolina’s House has voted for a measure that would lengthen the code revision cycle and limit local inspections.
“I cried all the way home,” said Staten Island homeowner Emilya Malkin after encountering New York City Parks Police on the beach near her house. Malkin says police threatened her family with arrest as she strolled with her husband and children.
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Ever fight a traffic ticket? Delaware mason contractor Donald Goldsborough is taking his ticket to the state Supreme Court.
If you want to know how big a deal coastal construction and zoning regulations can be, you don’t have to look further than the tree house at Angelinos Sea Lodge, a bed-and-breakfast getaway at Holmes Beach on Anna Maria Island, Fla.
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BP and its partners in the oil platform are facing a civil trial in a New Orleans federal courtroom, as Gulf Coast states and the U.S. government seek to recover the costs of the cleanup, compensation for economic and environmental damage, and likely additional penalties for negligence.
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An Ohio builder faces ten years in jail if convicted on charges he hired men to beat a neighbor who sued him over rights to a pleasant view.
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Baton Rouge police have leveled felony theft charges against a Louisiana builder after more than 30 unpaid trade contractors filed liens against four homeowners.