This home at Debordieu Beach, SC, is being protected by a wall of sand bags. Critics say that’s against state policy and bad for the beach. Photo courtesy S.C. Department of Health and Environmental ...

Across Florida, residents are rushing to fill sandbags and haul them back to their homes in the hopes of keeping the floodwaters out before Hurricane Milton brings a 12-foot storm surge and up to 15 ...

Hurricane Milton, which is forecast to become a Category 5 hurricane by the end of the day, is expected to strike the Tampa Bay area as a major hurricane late Wednesday. As residents make their final ...

This photograph, obtained from Department of Health and Environmental Control records, shows a wall of sandbags that has been installed at Debordieu Beach to fight erosion. DHEC staff members have ...

Students from the Sedro-Woolley, Burlington-Edison and Mount Vernon school districts got a lesson in building a proper sandbag wall Thursday at Dike District 12 headquarters. The students were trained ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A politically appointed board will hear an appeal from property owners who want to bury sandbags along a South Carolina beach to fight erosion. Opponents fear sandbag walls are ...

Earlier this year, attorneys for some oceanfront homeowners south of Myrtle Beach convinced a state board to let their clients keep a wall of sandbags the property owners had been accused of ...

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — A politically appointed board will hear an appeal from property owners who want to bury sandbags along a South Carolina beach to fight erosion. A three-member committee of the ...