The panel returned a “no true bill” verdict regarding the Oct. 12, 2019 incident.

The council created a special committee to look at the causes of the collapse over the protest of the city's mayor.

After delays that threatened to push the project into 2021, the City of New Orleans announced on Jan. 17 that the partially collapsed structure of the unfinished, 18-story Hard Rock Hotel will be brought down in a controlled demolition in late March, under a new plan to be submitted by demolition contractor D.H. Griffin Cos.

Two tower cranes at the site of the New Orleans hotel collapse are in worse shape than initially thought, forcing responders to reconsider how to dismantle them. An upper section of a hotel under construction in New Orleans partially collapsed on Saturday, Oct. 12, killing three and injuring dozens.

Major expansion of Hard Rock Hotel in southern Florida requires sophisticated management of workforce, multiple construction packages