Give historian and tour guide Diana Stuart a few minutes, and it will be hard to look at the street the same way again. For the last dozen years, Stuart has made historic manhole covers, coal chute ...

Q: We’re building a new house and I want to use cast iron for our sinks, shower base and bathtub. My husband says it sounds old-fashioned to use cast iron for so many plumbing fixtures and I should ...

Thieves are stealing storm water inlet covers and large, heavy steel plates covering sinkholes in streets to sell to scrapyards for cash, not only leaving holes that pose a safety hazard but posing an ...