One person was injured after the elevator they were riding in dropped three floors on Monday morning in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. The San Francisco Fire Department reported it ...

The Oak Lawn Village Board voted Tuesday to require that landlords maintain elevator service in residential buildings and make timely repairs, following cases of people who live in buildings with ...

Transport group Piston stages a program in Quezon City as it begins Day 1 of its nationwide transport strike to protest the oil price hike. —PHOTO BY DIANNE SAMPANG/INQUIRER MANILA, Philippines — ...

Up to 500 members of transport group PISTON will take part in a strike in Metro Cebu slated on Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20, 2026. The group is initiating the transport strike amid the ...

Kone Oyj is in talks to acquire TK Elevator, the private equity-owned elevator maker that’s been planning an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said. The Finnish company is ...

MANILA, Philippines — Transport group Piston will hold a transport strike starting Thursday, March 19, to protest the continuous oil price hikes amid tensions in the Middle East. Piston National ...

MANILA, Philippines — Transport group Piston has announced plans to mount a nationwide strike by the end of March amid the Middle East crisis. Piston president Mody Floranda said the government’s ...

Five people trapped in an elevator in Boston were saved in a dramatic high-rise rescue Monday night. It took a few hours, but Boston firefighters lifted them out one-by-one, more than a dozen stories ...

There's no need to sugarcoat what bad piston rings can do to your engine. Those rather thin cast-iron or steel rings may look small and irrelevant to untrained eyes, but they play a vital part in ...

The incident occurred at the Tokyo Skytree tower in Japan on Sunday, Feb. 22, with the visitors not rescued until 2 a.m. the following day Getty Two elevators at Tokyo Skytree, an observation and ...

Toshiba Corp. is considering reducing its stake in its elevator unit amid interest in the business from Finland’s Kone Oyj, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Japanese conglomerate could ...

Bay Area’s Vintage joins largest independent union elevator services company in the U.S. CANTON, Mass. & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Specialized Elevator (“Specialized”), a portfolio company ...