More than 250 people have died since 2013 when trenches they were working in caved in. In most cases, the employers failed to follow basic government regulations for making trenches safe.

Against the backdrop of the city’s 200th birthday celebration and amid public outcry, a nearly 100-year-old historic building is facing demolition. The three-story New Perry Hotel has been part of the fabric of downtown Perry since it was built in 1925. It’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but that does not protect the hotel from demolition. The steep cost of renovation has led current owners to recommend that the building be destroyed.

Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, with eight million acres of prime farmland. Yet, there’s so much concern over the spread of solar farms eating up huge portions of that acreage with vast fields of solar panels that the state Senate has formed a study committee to explore what can be done to save the most fertile land for farmers.

Few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power plants across the country. Nuclear energy’s proponents, however, counter that nuclear power has historically been among the safest forms of power generation, and that the consistent carbon-free energy it generates makes it an essential tool in the fight against global warming.

U.S. employers added 303,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.8%. Construction companies added 39,000 jobs, despite high interest rates.

Africa's cities have become home to an invasive, malaria-carrying mosquito. New research suggests vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take on the disease-bearing insects.

The workers were trapped by a landslide at a construction project in northern India. All of the construction workers are safe, police said, adding that they have been supplied with oxygen and water.

The housing market is showing a split: Sales of existing homes were down last month, but sales of newly built houses were up.

Savannah joins over 50 other Georgia municipalities that charge development impact fees.

Around 1,000 residents of the Tens on West apartment complex can go home again after an evacuation order was lifted Tuesday.

Residents of about 1,000 apartments in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood remained unable to return to their homes, a day after a crane partially collapsed at a nearby construction site. Atlanta fire chief Rod Smith said one of the crane's counterweights became dislodged and fell, causing damage to the crane Monday afternoon. 

Biden administration stimulus money pledged billions in funding for public works projects across the U.S. But contractors say they can't find enough workers to fix all the roads and bridges.

Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.

As rescuers still pulled some from the rubble, Turkish officials detained those allegedly involved in constructing buildings that toppled down and crushed their occupants.

As high-tech manufacturing plants are lured to Georgia, affordable housing for workers is emerging as a key challenge.