Reducing soil erosion, turning steep slopes into terraced backdrops, creating focal points in the landscape—retaining walls serve many purposes. Indeed, they are some of the most common ways to ...

The bridge project on the four-lane in New Martinville is steadily moving forward. The center highways supporting columns ...

This is the last of three stories on terracing hillsides. To read the first two stories, "Slippery slopes" and "Know your hillside," go to sfgate.com and type in Deborah K. Rich. "Almost all ...

Crews have begun building a retaining wall along the side of the carved-out hill that skirts Route 17 West between Exits 72 and 71N in Binghamton, part of the second phase of the Prospect Mountain ...