Vince Perracchio can’t sleep at night, worrying about basement cracks so big he can fit his hand in them. His lovely four-bedroom Colonial in Willington is not quite 30 years old, but its foundation ...

BOSTON - Homeowners across Massachusetts say their homes' foundations are crumbling and are now pleading with lawmakers to help save them. "Concrete is now able to be removed with your naked hand " ...

In 2020, Karen Riani and her husband were doing what many families did during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: skipping a vacation to invest in home projects. But when they tore down some old ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – An ongoing geologic survey of the Connecticut River Valley is expected to shed light on pyrrhotite, the mineral implicated in weakening building foundations in southern New ...

RUTLAND — When Kim and Jeffrey Haynes bought their house off William Circle in 2014, it felt like a good purchase. A worker works under 4 William Circle in Rutland as it is raised above its foundation ...

Editor's Note: This is part one of a series on Crumbling Foundations. Part two will appear in a future issue of The Item. REGION — Homeowners should perhaps fear one word even more than termites or ...

The attorney general has been looking into the issue of crumbling home foundations that is plaguing hundreds of homeowners in Hartford, Tolland and Windham counties and released a scientific report ...

STAFFORD — J.J. Mottes Co. and Becker Construction have agreed to stop supplying aggregate for residential foundations for at least one season after the state found that Becker’s Quarry contains ...

MONSON — Homeowners whose foundations and basement walls relentlessly crack and crumble because they were made with gravel containing the mineral pyrrhotite will lobby Beacon Hill Tuesday in part to ...

The USGS has released its first-ever map of where the mineral pyrrhotite may occur in the contiguous United States. This research was mandated by Congress in the FY2019 appropriations bill for the ...

Geologists and geophysicists gathered on the tarmac at Robertson Airport in Plainville Tuesday to watch a small plane take off. The orange and white plane, which can seat nine passengers, was filled ...

RUTLAND — When Kim and Jeffrey Haynes bought their house off William Circle in 2014, it felt like a good purchase. Estimated to be around 2,500 square feet, the house was in proximity to the Wachusett ...