On March 14, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, responsible for transporting water to Los Angeles County, collapsed and was considered one of the greatest civil engineering disasters of the 20th century in ...

"Our consulting practice started because city leaders would come in, see entrepreneurs building cool things, and they would see ways to use it." ...

Eric Batman, a 24-year veteran of the Department of Public Works, sued L.A. County on Tuesday after his bosses refused to let him work remotely in June, when the Pride flag hangs in front of many L.A.

Its 840-foot-tall, 72-story replacement, developed by Rabina and Park Tower Group in a public-private partnership, will be second only in height to nearby Brooklyn Tower, the very tallest in the ...

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A giant banner depicting a glaring President Donald Trump has been installed across the facade of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. The banner, hung between two columns by ...

A few meters below the former site of Seville’s 1992 World Expo, a promising climate experiment blending ancient technology and modern science is underway. Rows of black pipes run along the ceiling ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. This piece is adapted from the first issue of Building Your Block, a seven-issue newsletter ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul made a big pledge to Rochester and Monroe County when she released her executive budget proposal: the spending plan included $300 million for economic development in Rochester. The ...

The ‘Ain Braq aqueduct, which supplied water to ancient Petra, was thought to have only one conduit, or channel, until the recent discovery of a second one. Although most of the lead pipe is no longer ...

Los Angeles is betting that its next housing boom won’t rise from the ground up — but from the inside out. This month, city leaders enacted a sweeping overhaul of adaptive reuse rules, dramatically ...