Members of a search and rescue team come off the site of the collapse after their shift in Surfside, Fla., June 30, 2021. Since the sudden collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South last week in ...

Residents of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, were asleep when a sudden collapse beneath the building triggered a catastrophic chain of events. Minutes earlier, witnesses had noticed ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that condominiums in Florida are “kind of a dime a dozen, particularly in southern Florida,” but he would not commit to any state action to address concerns about the ...

Five years after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building that killed 98 people in Surfside, Florida, federal investigators have new information on the timeline of events. The columns ...

A new federal report reveals that structural flaws causing the Surfside condo collapse began weeks before the disaster in South Florida. Federal investigators found that key column connections failed, ...

SURFSIDE, Fla. (WINK) — Five years after the collapse of Champlain Towers South killed 98 people, federal investigators say the disaster likely began weeks before the condominium came crashing down.

The 2021 Surfside condo collapse prompted new legislation in Florida, impacting over 900,000 condo units. The new laws mandate inspections for older buildings, leading to increased costs for owners ...

In the NIST technical findings report, federal investigators found that two critical connections between the garage columns and the pool deck slab failed initially. The column failure caused cracks to ...