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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…

A worker at a Needham construction site was injured Friday after falling several feet.

The construction industry got the green light in the first phase of Gov. Charlie Baker’s reopening plan in Massachusetts. Amid some controversy, construction projects across the state had already continued during the COVID-19 shutdown because they were among the list of “essential” industries. However, cities like Boston, Cambridge and Somerville paused non-emergency projects in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. On Monday, Boston...

Safety measures will be required at all job sites with the resumption of construction in Massachusetts.

The fire came from plastic bins, and was put out in about half an hour.

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...

A sly fox broke into an Ocean Beach woman’s home for an overnight stay this week, a rare sighting that has only happened a handful of times in San Diego County, according to officials. Kessa Pellum awoke at about 4 a.m. Monday to her 25 pound French Bulldog sitting on her chest “barking ferociously” inside her home near Sunset Cliffs,...

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

Cement pillars connected by steel beams are now the most visible signs of the progress of the $2.3 billion MBTA Green Line Extension project. Project manager John Dalton told NBC10 Boston that they are still on track to finish by 2021. “We’re probably about 20% complete, done,” Dalton said during a tour of the site on Wednesday.

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.

A man wanted in the 2017 murder of his ex-girlfriend in Weymouth, Massachusetts, has been arrested in Florida, authorities said. Cornell Bell, 48, was captured Wednesday in Dania Beach, near Fort Lauderdale, the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office and Massachusetts State Police said.

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...

Work is halted at a North End construction site a day after a woman was hit by falling debris.

A contractor working on a construction site in Boston’s North End, where falling debris struck a pedestrian Thursday, has a history of minor safety violations, according to federal records. Corolla Contracting of Winthrop, the general contractor on the project, was cited four times by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for failing to follow OSHA safety protocols at job sites...

A young woman is in the hospital after debris fell from a construction site above, hitting her.

An incident involving a crane brought Boston police to TD Garden Thursday afternoon, where metal debris could be seen on the ground next to a truck at a construction site. No one was injured at the scene on Causeway Street, police said. The incident was reported at 3:20 p.m. There weren’t any more details immediately available, including what exactly...

A woman was critically injured after being hit by debris that fell from a Boston construction site.

A state trooper was hospitalized Wednesday morning after being struck by a car on Interstate 495 north in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Authorities said the trooper was working detail at a construction site near River Street when a driver entered a cordoned off area and struck the trooper’s parked cruiser at 9:20 a.m.

A state trooper was hospitalized Wednesday morning after being struck by a car on Interstate 495 north in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Authorities said the trooper was working detail at a construction site near River Street when a driver entered a cordoned off area and struck the trooper’s parked cruiser at 9:20 a.m.