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Valley View Casino & Hotel northeast of Escondido announced plans to expand, on Oct. 17.

San Diego-based Biotech firm BioLegend Inc. has begun work on a new campus in Miramar, with an expected project cost of more than $100 million.

Highly combustible materials used to turn a former jazz club into a movie set contributed to the death of FDNY firefighter Michael Davidson.

The collapse of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge one year ago has left a trail of deep personal loss and professional finger-pointing – but few answers.

Craig Wooster was awakened just before 5:30 a.m. more than six months ago when his cellphone rang with news of the fires that had begun racing through California’s Wine Country, and that would eventually kill more than 40 people, destroy more than 8,500 buildings and leave thousands without power. The general contractor of a small, freestanding grid or microgrid that...

Thousands of mourners gathered at Manhattan’s famed St. Patrick’s Cathedral Tuesday to bid farewell to the decorated firefighter and married father of four killed while battling a five-alarm blaze on a movie set last week in Harlem.

After three construction cranes collapsed in South Florida during Hurricane Irma, officials are again calling for tighter regulation of the equipment, setting up a potential fight with an industry that has fought stricter controls. Miami City Commissioner Ken Russell tweeted from one of the two accidents on high-rises in downtown Miami that the crane had dropped a counterweight that penetrated...

The family of a 10-year-old boy who died on a giant waterslide at a Kansas water park will receive nearly $20 million in settlement payments, according to court documents. The largest payment to Caleb Schwab’s family, $14 million, will come from SVV 1 and KC Water Park, two companies associated with the Texas-based water park operator Schlitterbahn, The Kansas City...

San Diego-based Pathfinder Partners plans a May 11 ground-breaking for Paseo Village Townhomes, an $11 million project in Ramona.

One potential bidder on President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under “hostile attack.” Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force. With bids due Tuesday on the first design contracts,...

Construction crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia’s historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains.

A state agency is seeking to revoke the contractor license for the builders of the Berkeley complex where a rotting balcony collapsed and killed six people last year, concluding that the builders ignored specifications that the structure be supported with beams treated against wood rot.

A general contractor who was in charge of constructing a balcony that collapsed in California and killed six people sought a court order Tuesday to be present when investigators examine the wreckage. Segue Construction asked for the order several days after a prosecutor announced a criminal investigation was underway in the collapse that injured seven other people in Berkeley. A...