If you are breaking into the lapidary business, try to specialize in one or two main areas. Scope out your competition, and gear the offerings in your rock shop toward what they lack. So you want to ...

The Woolsey Fire destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in Southern California. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rich Savko, owner of The Rock Store bar that survived, about reopening his business.

Not many convenience stores can call themselves community landmarks, but such a description can accurately be laid on the Rock Store. The business, which has served the area since before the U.S.

A month after the Rocky Broad River decimated his Chimney Rock shop, a thousand-dollar pile of inventory remains in Frank Plichta’s driveway, caked in mud. As water dries, a haze forms on some of the ...