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 ...

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 " ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mineral known as pyrrhotite, which occurs naturally in New England, is wreaking havoc on homeowners across Massachusetts. Pyrrhotite causes concrete, the foundation material for many homes in ...

HARTFORD — The first round of state testing into failing home foundations in northern and eastern Connecticut has concluded that the presence of a certain mineral in the concrete aggregate is at least ...

“We just stared at each other and said, 'This is not normal,'” she recalls. They didn’t know what was wrong. Neither did her cousin, who worked in concrete, or the structural engineer they called to ...

AND THE STATE MUST TAKE ACTION. IT WAS THE SIZE OF SOME CRACKS. IS FRIGHTENING AS THEY SPIDER ACROSS THE BASEMENT WALLS INSIDE AND OUT. AND THIS IS NO SINGLE FAMILY HOME IMPACTING JUST ONE FAMILY.

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 ...