Building-integrated wind turbine is the most “in thing” in the field of wind power these days. Electricity is being produced right where it is needed, eliminating...

Image Credit: Boise A new paper recycling and conservation paper law has been adopted by the state of Washington. On 6th May, 2009, Washington state Governor Chris...

Part of a vacant five-story building that had recently been cited for loose bricks and cracks collapsed in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, leaving mounds of rubble...

A five-story building collapsed at a lower Manhattan construction site on Thursday, but fire officials said it appeared no one was inside.

A 5-story building has collapsed at a lower Manhattan construction site, but New York City fire officials say it appears no one was inside.

The New York City Fire Department says a building in lower Manhattan has collapsed.

Police say a building has collapsed in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, killing at least five people. Dozens are trapped under the rubble.

The New York Times Co. has sold most of its home office for $225 million, padding the newspaper publisher’s financial cushion amid a sharp drop in revenue that...

The New York Times Co. has sold 21 floors of its headquarters building near New York’s Times Square.

Cologne’s six-story city archive building rumbled and then collapsed into a pile of rubble Tuesday. Many people inside were able to flee to safety, but rescue...

The building that houses the Cologne city archives collapsed on Tuesday and officials said they feared that people could be trapped inside.

The economic crisis has forced Harvard University to consider pausing a planned expansion in Boston.

It’s 7 a.m. in Indianapolis and the city’s residents are clearing their bleary eyes and snow-covered driveways.

An Italian real estate investor has bought a majority stake in the triangular landmark Flatiron Building and plans to turn it into a luxury hotel.

Washington fire officials say the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House was evacuated briefly after smoke from a fireplace clouded one of the...

Part of a sports center collapsed in high winds Saturday in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, killing four children and injuring 16 other people, officials and...

Part of a sports center collapsed in high winds Saturday in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, killing three children and injuring 16 others, witnesses said.

Spanish officials say part of a sports center collapsed in high winds, killing at least three children and trapping and injuring others in the northern city of...

A chance discovery of a medieval clay oven has revealed that Moorish architects used powdered animal bones to protect the walls of fortresses close to the Alhambra...

A Boston Fire Department ladder truck coming down a hill plowed through an intersection Friday and crashed into a high-rise apartment building, killing one firefighter...