Santa Monica City Council approves changes to building codes, raising high-rise threshold and allowing single-stairway ...

25-storey tower proposed to replace West End Vancouver single-family home A semi-retired baby-boomer couple who collect ...

In a bid to develop larger and more affordable family-sized housing units, the City Council Tuesday is expected to consider ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department declined to comment on the single stairway proposal, saying it is under review by the city fire marshal. The councilmembers behind the proposal say the department has ...

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday postponed a vote on a proposal that would allow construction of single-stairway apartment buildings up to six stories tall. Councilwoman Nithya Raman asked for the ...

Firefighters took the stairs to reach the woman’s 19th-floor apartment on Wednesday. Residents said one of the building’s two ...

This is a clear and ever present danger to our residents and to our fire and emergency services first responders.

The new Wanlass Center for Art Education and Research makes clever, elegant use of its compact footprint.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Yusuf Attah, recently inaugurated a twenty-one-member committee on the National Building Code Advisory. In a statement, it was noted that the ...

In the interest of expediting more housing, this proposal, if passed, would risk the lives of the men, women and children who are in the buildings,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

A Jim Thorpe Borough proposal to require annual safety inspections for all rental housing units sparked pushback from one ...