Mar. 21—The Cumberland County Commission approved an updated fee schedule for the residential and commercial building codes department with a life safety/occupancy inspection fee of $250. This is the ...

Sep. 22—It's been a busy year for building in Cumberland County, with more than 1,300 building permits issued by the city of Crossville. But commissioners of the Cumberland County Environmental ...

Everyone is talking about doing more with less these days. I keep wondering when we will be discussing doing less with less. Some taxpayers are so naà¯ve about what government does that their ...

There’s an ongoing debate about fire code compliance inspections. It’s a battle over emphasis: Is it better to perform many quick inspections or few in-depth inspections? To put it simply, what’s more ...

An aerial view shows the construction site at New York Elementary School on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. The Douglas County inspector charged with overseeing a large portion of the Lawrence school district ...

The city’s Department of Codes & Inspections has lifted a prohibition of occupancy on a Beale Avenue apartment, after an inspection that followed a Code Appeals Board hearing showed the man who lived ...