The California Coastal Commission voted unanimously Thursday to order a Laguna Beach couple to pay $1 million in fines and tear down a sea wall that officials say protects a single mansion from ...

The California Coastal Commission is expected to vote Thursday on whether to order a Laguna Beach homeowner to tear down a sea wall protecting a $25-million mansion from washing into the sea.

Solana Beach recently re-examined its policies about the beach and sea walls. In 2013, it wrote a local coastal plan. The coastal commission required the addition of "a long list of amendments ...

That leaves structural retreat, and sea walls. The Coastal Commission put out a guidance document for cities in 2015, saying that managed retreat should be “a framing principle,” or one option ...

Tiara on the Beach, the name for one pending building, would be 10 stories high and partially behind the sea wall, offering 63 units starting at $1.2 million and “stunning views of the Gulf of ...

But when they applied to build a permanent 257-foot concrete sea wall, the commission said no. “Sea walls eat away at the beach,” said the commission’s chairwoman, Dayna Bochco, during the ...

FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. — Those driving down A1A in Flagler Beach could find themselves stuck in construction traffic, and this is all because of a sea wall project the Florida Department of ...

Sea walls disrupt this natural system, Cedzo said. Typically, waves break on open beach, but a structure like a sea wall would block the wave from breaking as it naturally would, Cedzo said.

The repair works to a seaside town's sea wall have been completed before the school holidays. East Suffolk Council has been ...

KOCHI, India (AP) — Nearly two years ago, Mary Sebastian was hoisted on a chair and carried by a policeman in waist-deep floodwaters, leaving behind her now damaged home where she had spent more ...