Since 1974, the process of pumping sand from another site onto Tybee’s beaches has happened periodically to reinforce the coastline. Without it, the natural barriers against wind and water would erode ...

Tybee Island, Ga. — Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and ...

Last month, the city of Tybee Island received its first application for the yearly beach bash Orange Crush Festival. The permit, which featured an extensive 44-page long proposed site map, aims to ...

The following is from the Feb. 27 edition of the weekly "Savannah Town Square" opinion newsletter. The newsletter pushes to email inboxes every Tuesday morning. To ...

The morning after the Labor Day crowds started to file off of Tybee Island, Marie Rodriguez scanned up and down a section of south beach collecting trash off the sand. She's been picking up beach ...

In 1987, the same year the first Beach Bum parade was held on Tybee Island, a 19-year-old Savannah State University student named Kenneth Flowe applied for the first permit for Orange Crush. The ...

TYBEE ISLAND — As a younger man, Bret Bell lived two blocks from Tybee Island’s beach and grew to know the nuances of its gently curving shoreline through his almost daily walks. He lost that ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. At low tide on Tybee Island, Georgia, the beach stretches out as wide as it gets with the small ...