Florida showed the way decades ago by adopting a single statewide standard, saving lives and billions of dollars and showing ...

A new state law, Assembly Bill 130, bars local governments from changing their buildings codes from Oct. 1 to June 1, 2031.

Windows at the Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston can withstand a 9-pound, 8-foot-long piece of 2x4 lumber flying at 54 miles per hour. Small gravel picked up by last May’s 100-mph derecho shattered ...