There are plenty of steps in a DIY countertop install that can leave you feeling stressed, with the cutting phase easily being one of the most intimidating. A bad cut or even the most minor blemish ...

Leobardo Segura Meza, 27, of Pacoima suffers from silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has been afflicting workers who cut and polish engineered stone high in crystalline silica. (Mel Melcon / ...

Q: I enjoy your column in our newspaper, the Daily Herald. After reading a recent column, I've come up with a question on a pending refrigerator installation. Our kitchen countertop overhangs the ...

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of the Pacoima neighborhood in Los Angeles, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock.