On June 17, 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. Shipped from France in 350 pieces and packed in over 200 crates, the iconic monument made its grand entrance in America. That year ...

New York City’s famed Fifth Avenue is best known for its sparkling, fantastical holiday windows. Now, luxury brands are transforming an often overlooked, sometimes maligned part of city ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Emergency crews responded to a scaffolding collapse at a construction site in downtown West Palm Beach on Thursday morning. West Palm Beach police and fire rescue units ...

New York is in the middle of a dire housing crisis. Families in municipalities across the state are struggling to find safe, stable and affordable places to live. As we seek to create housing, there ...

A woman was killed in a scaffolding collapse after a privately owned garbage truck triggered a chain reaction crash in East Harlem on Tuesday, according to police. A man was driving the truck, with a ...

The insurance industry’s latest attack on New York’s Scaffold Law is framed as a plea for “affordability.” In reality, it is a demand for legal immunity for those who profit from dangerous ...

STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. WE WANT TO GET RIGHT TO THAT. BREAKING NEWS THIS AFTERNOON. A SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSE IN PITTSBURGH’S STRIP DISTRICT. LET’S GET RIGHT OUT TO PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR ...

A controversial 140-year-old, only-in-New York law that holds property owners and contractors responsible for all falls on construction sites, even in instances of worker negligence, has caused ...

(The Center Square) — New York’s “scaffold law” is driving up insurance costs and draining billions of dollars from the state’s economy, according to a new trade industry report, which is renewing ...

Any New York leader who cares about “affordability” will cheer Rep. Nick Langworthy’s effort to rein in the state’s obscene “Scaffold Law.” President Donald Trump, and anyone who’s built anything in ...

Traditional bamboo scaffolding wrapped in protective mesh surrounds a high-rise undergoing façade renovation in Hong Kong. Investigators say similar scaffold assemblies at Wang Fuk Court are central ...

Hong Kong plans to phase out its long tradition of using bamboo scaffolding for construction projects, after the city’s deadliest residential fire in more than 60 years. Investigators are still ...