Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Four construction workers were hospitalized after a scaffolding collapse in West Palm Beach Thursday morning, according to police. A little after 7 a.m., West Palm Beach Police and Fire Rescue ...

Emergency services responded on Tuesday to a structural collapse at a building site in Sea Point, where three people were injured. Picture: Sea Point CID/ Facebook. Emergency services responded on ...

A man died after falling from a building in Downtown Pittsburgh Thursday morning, public safety officials said. The fatal fall was reported around 11 a.m. Medics pronounced the man dead at the scene.

Most days, I pass through a cool, shaded colonnade my son describes as “the tunnel.” A promise to swing by can sometimes convince him to leave the playground, and I plan my own routes around its ...

A woman was killed in a scaffolding collapse after a privately owned garbage truck triggered a chain reaction crash in East Harlem on Tuesday, according to police. A man was driving the truck, with a ...

The insurance industry’s latest attack on New York’s Scaffold Law is framed as a plea for “affordability.” In reality, it is a demand for legal immunity for those who profit from dangerous ...

STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. WE WANT TO GET RIGHT TO THAT. BREAKING NEWS THIS AFTERNOON. A SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSE IN PITTSBURGH’S STRIP DISTRICT. LET’S GET RIGHT OUT TO PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR ...

As Hong Kong grapples with the fallout of its deadliest fire in nearly eight decades, a battle has erupted online over who—or what—should shoulder the blame. When photographer Elaine Li posted images ...

HONG KONG — Kan Shui-ying was home alone on Wednesday, watching television at her Hong Kong apartment while her husband and son were at work. It was around 3 p.m., she said, when she “smelled a strong ...

In the Grenfell Tower blaze, a combustible element called cladding that ran up the outside of the 24-story building allowed the fire to jump from floor to floor. By James Glanz The deadly fire that ...