SPRING VALLEY - A landlord and contractors were fined $26,750 for illegal renovations to a Jill Lane house without permits and ignoring a stop-work order, Rockland officials said on Thursday, July 17.

Rockland officials marked three years on Feb. 14 since the county Office of Buildings and Codes took over the village of Spring Valley’s building department. The county has issued more than 16,000 ...

The county was told to take over code enforcement in the wake of the fatal Evergreen Court fire in Spring Valley. “What we inherited was nothing short of a crisis — a village plagued by illegal ...