Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Oak Creek officials are preparing to overhaul how the town handles code enforcement, shifting nuisance cases out of the political arena and into municipal court as part of a long-anticipated effort to ...

SCHENECTADY — Christopher Lunn was hired five years ago by Mayor Gary McCarthy to overhaul the then-beleaguered code enforcement bureau that was reeling from a fatal high-rise apartment building blaze ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — With some of the oldest housing stock in the country, the Buffalo Common Council is proposing some changes to step up property maintenance and code enforcement. For Buffalo Common ...

TOWANDA — Towanda Borough is preparing a new enforcement procedure for certain code violations that will hasten the borough’s ...

Applause rang out among residents at the city council meeting in Faith on Tuesday, July 16 when the council voted to begin the process to rescind a controversial new code enforcement policy. After ...

Glenville Supervisor Chris Koetzle said Nayeem Abzal, a licensed electrician, will help the town as it prepares to bring electrical inspections in-house. SCHENECTADY — For the second time in recent ...

Columbus City Council updated city code at the end of June to make it easier to have a pollinator garden. Still, some homeowners growing native plants are facing code violations. City officials say ...

Marine City commissioners on Feb. 6 unanimously approved a code of ethics policy and enforcement procedure and a handful of other items. “In your charter revision, you have a list of policies that we ...

West Palm Beach’s code enforcement officers were barred from patrols and most code violation responses for nearly two months due to departmental turmoil. The upheaval included infighting, a ...