LOWELL – A company hired by the Lowell Housing Authority to find out how much asbestos is present at the LHA’s major housing developments found asbestos in the only unit at North Common Village it ...

Asbestos, a heat-resistant fibrous silicate mineral, was a common element in construction materials due to its resilient, durable nature—until the 1980s, anyway, when it was banned due to the ...

Q: We just purchased a 1920s colonial style home and are now renovating it. In the basement, we removed the carpet and discovered tiles that we fear may contain asbestos. A few were cracked, and most ...

A lawsuit for breach of contract may be retaliation, a local nonprofit claims, for the organization threatening to tell other tenants about improper asbestos abatement causing potential health ...

Question: I bought a home several months ago and had it inspected. But in my opinion the home inspector missed an important defect. One room has old-looking vinyl flooring that I recently discovered ...