Planning a major renovation or just making small improvements around the house? Understanding building codes is crucial. These regulations exist to keep you, your family, and future occupants safe.

Repeat offenders who break the county's rules around illegal signs, building permits or trash could be forced to pay as much as $500 a day for their violations due to an ordinance update.

Suspicion, Bryce Road: A resident, 72, arrived on station June 19 to report a fraudulent attempt to transfer funds out of one of his accounts. Building code violation (summons served), Cambridge Lane: ...

SPRING VALLEY - The Jan. 22 death of a baby in a residence at 18 White St. turned up scores of building code violations, county officials said. But county officials said a probe of the site as a ...