Mar. 21—The Cumberland County Commission approved an updated fee schedule for the residential and commercial building codes department with a life safety/occupancy inspection fee of $250. This is the ...

In last week's blog post, which I did not post here on the Star Tribune, I mentioned that there is an upcoming seminar for Minnesota home inspectors, being taught by building code guru Douglas Hansen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether or not anything in your home is in fact "to code" is a mystery to most homeowners. Depending on the work that's been done ...

People often refer to inspections in generic terms–and in so doing, get the entire concept of code enforcement mixed up. An inspection is an inspection, right? The answer is no. For those involved in ...

When: Leacock Township Board of Supervisors meeting, May 19. Supervisor Carl Smucker was absent. What happened: Two builders attended the meeting asking that the township appoint alternate ...