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

Georgia's attorney general has tapped an engineering firm to conduct an independent investigation into a dock collapse that ...

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

At least seven people died after the gangway collapsed at Georgia’s Sapelo Island on Saturday, state authorities said.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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