WE’RE FOLLOWING A DEVELOPING STORY IN SACRAMENTO. FIRE CREWS RESCUED TWO PEOPLE WHO WERE TRAPPED UNDER BROKEN SCAFFOLDING. THIS ALL HAPPENED ABOUT 915 THIS MORNING AT CU AND 15TH STREETS. AND YOU CAN ...

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 garbage truck hit a parked vehicle, pushing it into the scaffolding, the police said. By Samantha Latson A woman in East Harlem was killed Tuesday morning when a garbage truck hit a parked vehicle, ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH — Scaffolding fell from a building in Pittsburgh’s Strip District during strong winds, damaging several parked cars and a nearby building. Police, firefighters and medics were dispatched to ...

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 ...

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 — Kan Shui-ying was home alone on Wednesday, watching television at her Hong Kong apartment while her husband and son were at work. It was around 3 p.m., she said, when she “smelled a strong ...