Warning: This is second-edition story of “when I was a child.” During my work on the sea oats story for July 10, I learned that a friend who is about to build a new oceanfront home faced a ...

Before it fell, Champlain Towers South, the 12-story Florida condo building that collapsed last week in the middle of the night, burying residents in a pile of concrete and chaos, was just another ...

What's lurking beneath some of downtown Milwaukee's oldest buildings? Some of the same stuff that used to be growing near where they stand. A number of the buildings constructed downtown in the city's ...

A monk seal rests on a beach along Front Street in Lahaina where hundreds of concrete pilings were removed recently. The pilings once held structures that were destroyed in the 2023 Lahaina wildfire.

Flagler Beach received a single bid of $14 million to replace its shuttered and battered iconic wooden pier with a taller and stronger pier on concrete pilings, even though initially four companies ...

Early Thursday (June 24) morning, part of a condominium complex in Surfside, Florida, suddenly collapsed. In about 11 seconds, 55 of the building's 136 units crumbled into a pile of rubble, and now, ...

A huge crane began driving pilings Thursday at the southern edge of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the first step in building a 150-foot-wide barge gate -- part of a giant concrete barrier designed ...

A storm surge barrier is constructed at the entrance to the Industrial Canal on Thursday. The projects are costing more than originally was expected. A huge crane began driving pilings Thursday at the ...