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A car full of people plummeted into a construction site at Ridge Avenue and Rector Street in Philadelphia’s Roxborough neighborhood as rain fell overnight. Investigators say all four young people in the car are expected to be OK.

Authorities in New Orleans are now investigating a new video following the collapse of the future hotel. The social media post is raising questions about potential concerns before the deadly accident, NBC News reports. The grainy video claims to show the hotel two days before it buckled. An apparent worker at the construction site is heard in Spanish saying a...

Drone footage taken in New Orleans shows the damage after the Hard Rock Hotel collapsed during construction on Saturday.

Firefighters rescued two workers, one who was left dangling stories up, after a hanging construction platform partially collapsed on the side of an Atlantic City building Monday morning.

Prosecutors say a U.S. Marine veteran accused of stabbing a construction worker to death at an Oceanside job site in 2017 “missed the thrill” of killing and went out that night looking for a life to take.

Thousands of union workers at a western Pennsylvania petrochemical plant were given a choice last week — show up for President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday or stay home and lose some of their weekly pay, NBC News reports. One of the construction site’s contractors wrote in rules for the speech ahead of the event that employees’ attendance was “not...

An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals the approval process to build a private school in Silicon Valley right next to a concrete plant was the result of an unfortunate chain of events, that included inaccurate permit applications, poor communication between government agencies, and other bureaucratic blunders.

Saint Mark’s and Saint John’s Episcopal Church in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, is in danger. The historical church dating to 1867 is perched on top of a hill, into which a construction project needs to dig. Some church supporters say they will chain themselves to the construction site to stop work that they say threatens the church structure and...

A contractor who fell into a trench on a Delaware construction site broke both his legs in the fall, the Delaware Department of Transportation said Monday.

An investigation is underway after workers found human remains at a construction site in the Nicetown-Tioga section of Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.

A stranger climbed through a second-floor window, then up to the top bunk of a bed and raped an 11-year-old girl while her brother was in the bottom bunk below, a prosecutor said Sunday.

A suspect accused of climbing through a window and raping an 11-year-old girl inside her Brooklyn home was in custody Saturday to the cheering of neighbors, police said.

Orange County Fire Rescue said that the accident took place at a hotel being built near Chelonia Parkway – adding the workers were between the sixth and seventh floors when the accident occurred.

Surveillance video captured a person of interest in multiple arson fires in Gloucester Township, New Jersey.

Surveillance video captured a person of interest in at least four arson fires in Gloucester Township, New Jersey.

One person is dead and 15 others have been hurt after a large explosion at a Central Texas hospital.

A sinkhole created a mess in a Hackensack, New Jersey, parking lot Monday, swallowing a backhoe in a construction site, authorities say.

The collapse of a crane sent construction workers running for their lives in a Florida city on Thursday, nearly striking a man as it toppled over.

As a teenager working for his dad’s construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects. Now the former Google engineer is turning that dream into a reality with Built Robotics, a startup that’s developing technology to allow bulldozers, excavators and other construction...