Not for the first time, the west end of Oak Island needs sand. Hurricane Isaias, which raked the Brunswick County shoreline nearly four years ago, chewed away a lot of the beach. Storms, king tides ...

The Army Corps of Engineers is pumping sand onto Oak Island's western end to combat erosion near Lockwood Folly Inlet. The project, due to wrap up by the end of April, will widen the beach by 75 feet ...

The brown piping snaked along the beach near Oak Island's western tip, making a trip from the public accesses and oceanfront homes a challenge at times. But that wasn't bothering Donnie Fredericks as ...