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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — A Dubai-based developer plans to build a 12-story luxury condominium project on the South Florida site where a building collapsed in 2021, killing 98 people. DAMAC International ...

Federal investigators examining the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida, are leaning toward the conclusion that the building’s pool deck was the ...

It was 1:30 AM when Champlain Towers South began to fall. Seven minutes after a piece of the pool deck caved in, the building ...

Nearly five years after Champlain Towers South collapsed, pieces of “the concrete, the steel that once held our loved ones’ homes together” were returned to Surfside, Martin Langesfeld said Wednesday.

SURFSIDE, Fla. — A Dubai-based developer plans to build a 12-story luxury condominium project on the South Florida site where a building collapsed in 2021, killing 98 people. DAMAC International said ...

SURFSIDE, FLA. (WSVN) - The Surfside commission voted 3-1 in favor of approving a luxury condo site plan for the location once occupied by the ill-fated Champlain Towers South. The contentious meeting ...

Take a deeper look as South Florida officials look into criminal charges and blame for the deaths caused when the Miami Dade ...

At a time of rising prices for gas, groceries and health care, millions of Florida condominium owners are facing an even tougher financial challenge. They soon will be required to pay for expensive ...

More residents of the Champlain Towers South are suing their condo board, claiming that the association was aware of, or should've been aware of, major structural issues throughout the building but ...