Using a modified method, Shimmick’s Legacy Foundations restarted work on the troubled perimeter pile upgrade of the ailing Millennium Tower in San Francisco.

State reached agreement to pay homeowners and businesses for lead-tainted water but its lawsuits against consultants that advised the city will continue.

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts reached a settlement with the family of an 18-year-old killed in the Sept. 13 gas explosions north of Boston.