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 ...

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, ...

It was a rocky start to the day on Fort Myers Beach. Crews working on the Big Carlos Pass Bridge had a concrete beam fall over onto a crane as Lee County deputies and other departments helped out.

Pilings based on snakeskin are easier to drive into soil and more difficult to pull out, according to lab tests at the UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling. These pilings could one day support ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Garrett Harrison was quick to answer when asked when he would like to see the new pier finished. He is the project manager for the new pier being built by Hal Jones Construction based here in ...

Holden Beach is pursuing a bond referendum to fund a new pier. The old pier, purchased in 2022 for $3.3 million, has been deemed unsafe and its building demolished. If approved by voters in November, ...