North Wildwood was told by the state Wednesday that it cannot build an emergency bulkhead even as the ocean creeps ever closer to homes and puts other parts of its coast in peril. The proposed roughly ...

ATLANTIC CITY — City Council unanimously voted Wednesday night to introduce an ordinance requiring owners of vacant bayside lots to build bulkheads as a flood prevention measure. The proposed ...

ATLANTIC CITY — City Council tabled a proposed ordinance to force private bayfront landowners to build bulkheads for flood control, at Mayor Marty Small Sr.'s request Wednesday night. Small said he is ...

Scientists and coastal advocates agree: Bulkheads are bad news for salt marshes. The vinyl or wooden structures that have long been the go-to solution along North Carolina’s estuaries and sounds, but ...

UNION — Property owners living in Mason County have been fined more than $280,000 for illegally replacing the bulkhead at the shore of Hood Canal near Union without a required permit in 2017 and 2020, ...

A home on the beach can seem like a dream: walking out onto the sand each day and having the ocean right in your backyard. Quickly this dream can go south, with active hurricane seasons and the ocean ...

On several occasions, North Wildwood carried out emergency repairs, including construction of an earlier bulkhead without approval from the state. Mayor Patrick Rosenello stands next to a destroyed ...