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 ...

Dennys Rene Rivas Williams had to undergo a double lung transplant and now takes numerous pills each day. He is among dozens of L.A. County countertop cutters diagnosed with incurable silicosis. (Al ...

`Cutting in` is a term professional installers use for cutting the opening in a countertop for a new kitchen or bathroom sink. For amateurs, cutting in a sink can be ...

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.

A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a 34-year-old stonecutter afflicted with an incurable disease. In a decision ...

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 ...

For our kitchen counters, we have traveled from laminates to butcher block to marble to soapstone to granite, and then back again. Each material has its pros and cons, but none has an ultimate ...

Doctors had diagnosed the 36-year-old with silicosis: an incurable disease caused by inhaling tiny bits of lung-scarring silica. It was an affliction that had debilitated dozens of workers in Los ...