Heading into the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, if you plan on going to Miami Beach leave your cigarettes at home because it is now illegal to smoke on the beach and in parks. Those caught will be cited and fined, but the city said that’s not what this is about. It’s about...
The City of Cape Town has re-opened Hout Bay beach after tests showed water samples taken this week were within the minimum requirement of pollution for recreational activities as determined by the National Water Quality Guidelines for coastal waters. Earlier this week, the City...
Thirty years after the discovery of a woman’s body on a beach, an image has been released to try and identify her. A team of voluntary investigators at charity Locate International is revisiting the case of a woman found near the Low Lighthouse on Burnham-on-Sea beach on 13 January...
Bowentown’s beach was closed off to swimmers on Saturday after a bronze whaler was spotted swimming about 50m offshore. Surf Lifesaving New Zealand lifeguard supervisor Nick Wagstaff said the 1.5m shark “swam right by the flags about 50m offshore” this morning when lifeguards made the...
It is now legal for women — and men — to be topless at beaches on the popular vacation island of Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts. Earlier this year, a local-led “Gender Equality on Beaches” campaign proposed a bylaw amendment that would make it legal for...
