A Monmouth County beach town has banned the digging of large holes and burying of people in the sand. Sea Girt passed an ordinance in April adopting stricter rules around sand hole digging. Under the ...

DUCK, N.C. (WNCN) — Officials at the North Carolina coast are reminding visitors not to dig and leave behind deep, wide holes in beach sand. The Dare County town of Duck on the Outer Banks issued a ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — Escambia County emergency officials are issuing warnings about the risks of digging deep holes in the sand. The warning comes after a young girl died when a hole she was ...

The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 7-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Florida beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DUCK, N.C. (WNCN) — Officials at the North ...

WASHINGTON — A day at the beach can go from catching waves, to desperately trying to save a life. Digging holes at the beach is something many people, including kids do for fun. But experts warn that ...

As discussion continues about whether Lauderdale-by-the-Sea will pay for lifeguards when it seems many residents don’t want them, elected officials have made it illegal to dig deep holes in the sand ...

The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 7-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children ...

Yellow crime scene tape marks the area in a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach where a 7-year-old girl died on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, after sand buried her at the bottom of a deep hole she and her brother ...