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A Montana judge has ruled that a town’s wildland fire-prevention code can’t restrict building material choices.
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Home prices are surging this spring. One big reason: Wall Street investors are buying.
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A Northwest nonprofit is trying to raise the bar for energy efficiency.
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OSHA is ready to sock a Boston-area framing contractor with $300,000 in fines, alleging a willful violation of fall protection rules.
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Home prices rose sharply in April, buoying the nation’s economic recovery.
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Lee County, Florida has 1,900 Chinese drywall-tainted houses on its tax rolls (officially). The true number is uncertain.
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“A world-class city has good infrastructure,” Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez said this month, as commissioners approved a 15-year, $1.6-billion program of investment in water and sewer pipes.
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With the words “LIPA is broken,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has started a legislative push to hand the power company’s operations over to New Jersey-based Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG).
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Owners of vacation or investment houses on the shore aren’t on FEMA’s list for post-Sandy financial aid. But they are on the list of houses that have to be elevated — now.
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Storm surge flooding can be a hurricane’s most dangerous threat, but shore dwellers often don’t appreciate the risk. Now the government hopes to make those risks more clear.