That horn you heard last night? It was a foghorn, of course, more than likely from a ship's horn. But it may or may not have been the breakwater lighthouse foghorn that used to lull so many of us to ...

It’s been a while since I paid a visit to the South Buffalo Lighthouse, near the northern shores of Bethlehem Steel at the South Gap of the Outer Harbor. Every couple of years, like clockwork, I get ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WPRI) — The Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse is in dire need of repairs, and the U.S. Coast Guard is urging its owner to step up. Even though the lighthouse, which was built in 1901, is ...

There's something about winter that just seems to go with lighthouses. Maybe it's because the quietly heroic people who maintained them were never so important as when a howling storm blew in, or ...

The Coast Guard turned off Borden Flats Lighthouse’s foghorn a couple of months ago after receiving a complaint that the horn was blowing at irregular intervals, officials said Wednesday. A foghorn, ...

BILLERICA — The fog that refused to dissipate will always remain in Joseph Surette’s memory. It was May in the 1940s — the specific year now escapes the 84-year-old — and the fog would not leave the ...

According to Realtor.com, the most widely searched house at its site this week is a home created from a lighthouse. The home is near Horn Harbor, on Chesapeake Bay, north of Newport News. It is on the ...