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 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.

A chunk of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, where members of the Gullah Geechee community had gathered to ...

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

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

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

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

The state is not necessarily the best actor to be investigating itself,” attorney Francys Johnson, who is representing the ...

Around 700 people were visiting Georgia’s Sapelo Island for an annual celebration for the Gullah-Geechee community of Black ...

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