More than 2,000 navigational beacons, big and small, oversee the nation’s 60,000-mile-long coast. Now they need an upgrade.

Thanks to a childhood promise made to the late, great funnyman Slappy White, I have an obligation to observe, document, and ...

All across the country, lighthouses are falling into disuse and disrepair. In Aquinnah, a devoted group of townspeople are ...