The National Council completed the reform’s final phase: all new buildings require certified inspection, except special cases. Ariela Yariv Gotenberg calls it a key milestone in licensing. In the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration is promising more concrete steps to improve the permitting and building inspection process and hold inspectors accountable after releasing two ...

Attleboro and surrounding communities host several assisted living facilities and local fire and building officials say they are subject to rigorous inspection procedures. “We probably do as good a ...

The state is conducting a formal review of the town's building inspection department after receiving several complaints it approved the construction and expansion of a Grove Street house abutters ...

Real estate and building experts say the plan to force vendors to provide building and pest inspections before selling their home — rather than leaving it to the buyer — would hand “too much power” to ...