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Who Will Pay for San Francisco’s $750M Sinking Luxury Tower?

Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco’s Millennium Tower in 2010. “It was supposed to be a wonderful building,” she said in January, sitting …

North Dakota Homeowners Concerned After Neighborhood Yards Collapse

Some homeowners in a Bismarck, N.D., neighborhood are questioning the long-term safety of their houses after some backyards dropped as much as 7 feet in June. Jim Hopfauf is one of the homeowners affected by the collapsing hill where houses …

Rhode Island Dam Would Likely Withstand Quake

An engineering expert says the dam that supplies drinking water to roughly 60 percent of the state’s population could likely withstand an earthquake. University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor Aaron Bradshaw says he worried the soil underneath Rhode Island’s largest …