The Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island were already facing a number of stressors: gentrification, tax hikes and an ...

Georgia's attorney general brought in an engineering firm to conduct an independent investigation into a fatal dock collapse ...

Authorities are working to identify the cause of a partial ferry dock collapse on Georgia’s Sapelo Island that turned a day ...

The deaths of seven people on Sapelo Island have brought to the fore longstanding frustrations among its Gullah Geechee ...

Seven people died after a ferry gangway collapsed Saturday in Georgia, according to state officials. Authorities were working ...

The fact that those who died in the Sapelo Island disaster were older didn’t make this loss any less devastating. If anything, it made it more so.

Crowds had gathered on Sapelo Island for a celebration of its tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.

The tragedy occurred late Saturday as visitors were leaving a Culture Day celebration on historic Sapelo Island.

The gangway collapsed Saturday as festival goers prepared to board a ferry amid Sapelo Island's annual Cultural Day, ...

What should have been a joyous celebration of Gullah-Geechee culture and history instead turned into tragedy and devastation, ...

Isaiah Thomas tried grasping his niece's hand. But he also clutched her shirt, dragging her head below the water's surface.

Disaster struck at the end of an annual cultural celebration on Sapelo Island. Twenty people went into the water, including seven people over the age of 70 who died.