In 1997, former Flyer reporter Phil Campbell wrote a cover story titled “Cheaper by the Hour,” which detailed the operations of local hourly rate motels three years after a zoning ordinance was passed ...

On Monday night, Waterbury’s Board of Aldermen will vote on an ordinance which would ban hourly hotel and motel rates. The vote will take place after a public hearing and if passed, the ordinance ...

Fife City Council approved an ordinance banning hotels and motels from hourly rentals. City cited link between hourly room rates and drug activity, prostitution and trafficking. Violations will be ...