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Amazon is shutting down construction at a facility in Connecticut after several noose-like ropes were discovered at the site in recent weeks. A spokesperson for Amazon said the company is “deeply disturbed” by the incidents happening at the Windsor, Connecticut site and has ordered the shutdown until necessary security measures can be put in place. “Hate, racism or discrimination have…

D.C. leaders celebrated the groundbreaking on a major new development in a neighborhood that’s been underserved for generations. It will be at the intersection of Benning Road and Minnesota Avenue in Northeast. News4’s Mark Segraves explains the project.

Police have arrested a man suspected of killing a construction worker on a job site last month in Northeast D.C.  George Miller, 26, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, was arrested Wednesday in the killing of Elías Flores, police said.  Miller was arrested by the Capital Area Fugitive Regional Task Force and charged with first-degree murder while armed. It wasn’t immediately...

A construction worker shot during a robbery at a construction site in Northeast D.C. Wednesday died Monday morning, police said. The victim, identified by his family as Elías Flores, was shot in the head. At about 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, the suspect entered a home under construction in the 1600 block of Olive Street NE, brandished a gun and shot...

A judge ruled contractors for the project can walk off the job over a cost dispute. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss reports.

Transportation reporter Adam Tuss reports notorious gate 35X is one step closer to going away forever at Reagan National Airport.

In the center of Georgetown lies a vacant lot where construction is supposed to occur, but instead, residents have had a crane looming over their heads for the past three years. The site at 30th and M streets appears to be abandoned, and residents have been complaining about the empty spot for years. “Once upon a time I thought they…

A construction site in Georgetown hasn’t shown signs of activity in years. Mark Segraves reports.

A Maryland man has died after a construction accident in Northern Virginia.

The owner of a Virginia construction company that specializes in luxury homes faces criminal charges after a 16-year-old boy working on a job site died this summer.

Authorities in New Orleans are now investigating a new video following the collapse of the future hotel. The social media post is raising questions about potential concerns before the deadly accident, NBC News reports. The grainy video claims to show the hotel two days before it buckled. An apparent worker at the construction site is heard in Spanish saying a...

Drone footage taken in New Orleans shows the damage after the Hard Rock Hotel collapsed during construction on Saturday.

The Wharf has become one of D.C.’s most prized real estate areas, but some who live nearby don’t like what’s blowing their way.

Prosecutors say a U.S. Marine veteran accused of stabbing a construction worker to death at an Oceanside job site in 2017 “missed the thrill” of killing and went out that night looking for a life to take.

Thousands of union workers at a western Pennsylvania petrochemical plant were given a choice last week — show up for President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday or stay home and lose some of their weekly pay, NBC News reports. One of the construction site’s contractors wrote in rules for the speech ahead of the event that employees’ attendance was “not...

A juvenile died after being trapped in a ditch in Fairfax County Tuesday night, police said.

A juvenile died after being trapped in a collapsed ditch at a construction site in McLean, Virginia, Tuesday night. News4’s Drew Wilder has the story.

A juvenile has died and a man is in the hospital after they were trapped in a ditch at a construction site in McLean, Virginia, authorities say.

An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals the approval process to build a private school in Silicon Valley right next to a concrete plant was the result of an unfortunate chain of events, that included inaccurate permit applications, poor communication between government agencies, and other bureaucratic blunders.

A stranger climbed through a second-floor window, then up to the top bunk of a bed and raped an 11-year-old girl while her brother was in the bottom bunk below, a prosecutor said Sunday.