Hong Kong, with some of the world’s highest housing costs and inequality, must now figure out how to help thousands of ...

Homeowners at the complex destroyed in one of Hong Kong's deadliest fires were incorrectly told the contractor that ...

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An apartment building fire in Jersey City, New Jersey, displaced about 30 people Friday, sending them out into frigid ...

A 22-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison for setting a fire earlier this year at the former Blue Heron paper ...

Officials said firefighters battled the blaze for just over an hour before it was knocked down and overhaul efforts were ...

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After the city’s deadliest fire in decades, Hong Kong’s government, wary of sparks of unrest, has employed a heavy-handed ...

Hazardous construction materials, the buildings’ design and a series of safety failures likely enabled the blaze to spread ...

Officials are rushing to tamp down anger over the blaze, which killed at least 159 people in the Chinese territory’s ...

The death toll from a high-rise apartment fire in Hong Kong has risen to 159. Authorities arrested six people on suspicion of ...