Tag: Coastlines and beaches
Great Lakes water surge eases after 2 record-setting years
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A spell of dry, mild weather is giving the Great Lakes a break after two years of high water that...
Florida weighs allowing limited harvest of goliath grouper
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida may lift its three-decade ban on catching and killing goliath grouper. Wildlife officials say the coastal fish's numbers have...
Tropical Storm Andres forms in Pacific off southwest Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Tropical Storm Andres formed off the southwestern coast of Mexico on Sunday, the first named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane...
Mexico marks end of last Indigenous revolt with apology
MEXICO CITY — Mexico on Monday marked the anniversary of a 1901 battle that ended one of the last Indigenous rebellions in North America,...
Judge asked to halt dredges during sea turtle nesting season
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A conservation group filed suit asking a judge to stop a federal agency from dredging a Georgia harbor during the nesting...
3 killed, 27 hospitalized after boat capsizes off San Diego
SAN DIEGO — A packed boat being used in a suspected human smuggling operation capsized Sunday and broke apart in powerful surf along the...
Determined volunteers still search for capsized ship missing
COCODRIE, La. — The volunteers gather around a map, suntanned fingers tracing over the bayous, lakes and islands where they'll search. They talk about...
$302M in BP oil spill money budgeted to restore ecosystems
NEW ORLEANS — Texas can get up to $79 million in BP oil spill restoration money, Mississippi nearly $69 million, and Florida almost $74...
With pools closed, Peruvians turn to open-water swimming
LIMA, Peru — The swimmers began gathering even before dawn glimmers on Pescadores beach, plunging into the Pacific surf for one of the few...
Apple announces 1st East Coast campus in North Carolina
Apple announced plans on Monday to invest more than $1 billion in North Carolina to build the company's first East Coast campus, a move...