A new Florida law makes it easier for local governments to allow the public to access the beach even when there are disputes over private property, an issue that has often been hotter than the middle ...

An upscale hotel in the Orange County coastal community of Laguna Beach has run afoul of long-standing state regulations. The hotel, located on a popular stretch of public sand, built a berm and put ...

If you like strolling on Seacoast beaches, you might need to watch where you step. Maine is one of just two coastal states where private property owners own the beach area down to the low tide line ...

Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell – who filed a lawsuit against a Florida county, accusing the sheriff’s department of refusing to keep public beachgoers off of his private beach – says ...

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. -- Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell has filed a lawsuit against the Walton County Sheriff's Office, claiming that deputies wouldn't enforce property rights laws at his private ...

The Colonial Ordinances of 1941-47 make it so the public is not allowed to walk on private beaches in Massachusetts above the low water tide. But private property owners technically cannot interfere ...

This summer, my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. I asked her to marry me on the beach at sunset. Because it was a busy beach, it wasn’t very intimate, but she said "yes" — that’s ...

Senate Bill 1622 allows county government authority to recognize recreational customary use of beaches It's a way to get around costly legal battles over private versus public beach access ...