Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “How easy it is for us to merely drift along day after day,” an unnamed writer for the Milford Chronicle mused on Oct. 25, 1935, ...

“Without the appropriation of a penny by the Federal or State governments,” the Wilmington Evening Journal gloated on Aug. 22, 1908, “the channel that opened the Indian River through sand dunes to the ...

Crews are working to restore the severely eroded beach area north of the Indian River Inlet in southern Delaware. (DNREC photo) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and ...

The Indian River Inlet has a mind of its own. Over the years, the waterway would fill with sand and then reopen whenever it pleased. Sometimes, the tides and currents would reopen the waterway in the ...

INDIAN RIVER INLET, DE - Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has announced the closure of parts of the North Indian River Inlet Beach due to safety concerns.

More than 130,000 cubic yards of sand have been restored as part of a $25 million effort to protect Route 1 and combat severe erosion at Indian River Inlet. DNREC’s emergency dredging project to ...

(Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control did not fulfill a Freedom of Information Act request when the ...