When you’re dead asleep and someone in your family sneaks downstairs for a late-night snack, the loud groan of a stair is jarring and annoying. Squeaky stairs are caused by wear and tear on the wooden ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. I wasn’t badly hurt (though I’m pretty sure my cats were all laughing at me), but that just makes me lucky: More than a million people end up at the ...

An architectural preservation group wants to fix up a historic set of steps that connects St. Paul’s Summit Avenue to the West Seventh neighborhood and restore a connection interrupted during the ...

A project to fix a crumbling stairway at La Jolla’s Whale View Point took a step forward last week when representatives of the city of San Diego met with local volunteers to discuss possible repairs.