GALVESTON, Texas - The sand that blew from Porretto Beach over the seawall between Ninth and 10th streets this weekend piled up in miniature dunes in front of Tommy Hicks' house. The drifts that ...

Madurai: The accumulation of sand on both sides of city roads is posing a danger to two-wheeler riders. Commuters say that the sand which gets accumulated on the roads is not cleared regularly. Even ...

Illegal sand piling by the Dhaka-Agartala International Highway in Brahmanbaria led to about 120-feet stretch of the highway to collapse into the Titas River early on Monday. Three sand traders ...

With the government not dredging along the Mangalore Old Port for a number of years, it has become perilous for fishermen to traverse Alive Bagilu (river mouth), said Mangalore South MLA J.R. Lobo in ...

Senior villagers make sandcastles in Mangshi city of Southwest China's Yunnan province to celebrate Sand-piling Festival. [Photo by Zhuang Yucong for chinadaily.com.cn] Sand-piling Festival kicked off ...

Transportation officials paid more for road salt and sand this year due mostly to higher fuel costs for delivery, they said. That is, unless they bought sand during the spring, before the jump in fuel ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — A sand bar that accumulated near the mouth of Oceanside Harbor after strong surf pounded the California coast earlier this month has made water as shallow as 6 feet in some areas ...

(Reuters) - Sand miner U.S. Silica Holdings Inc said demand could triple over the next five years as energy companies use increasing amounts of sand in hydraulic fracturing to extract more oil and gas ...

The City Council will vote today on whether to allow 12 Sandbridge home and condo owners to move sand that drifted onto their waterfront properties back to the beach. The Coastal Primary Sand Dune and ...