WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Rotting hulls. Leaking oil. Tangled fishing lines. Abandoned and derelict vessels pose growing problems in waterways nationwide, leading to safety risks, environmental harm, ...

Damaged boats are just one of many hazards left behind after storms. Randy Vance Mike Provost was boating with his family one day when they saw a disintegrating boat tied up to a tree on the shore of ...

An abandoned boat remains at Sycamore Island on the Allegheny River. After more than a decade of taming Japanese Knotweed, the Allegheny Land Trust has restored Sycamore Island on the Allegheny River ...

From small fishing boats littered across state ports to a massive 384-foot ship rusting in the Columbia River, Oregon’s waterways continue to be dotted with abandoned and derelict vessels. Now, a ...

Pennsylvania's new law, Act 28 of 2025, is helping municipalities remove abandoned boats from waterways, addressing unsightly litter across the state.

A North Carolina task force dealing with boats abandoned in the wake of Hurricane Florence raised dozens of vessels from coastal waters, cleaned out hazardous materials, moved them out of navigation ...

This is the fourth in a week-long series of columns written to coincide with national Newspaper Week. The columns highlight examples of high-impact reporting by our journalists and take you behind the ...

These days, the only threat posed by a 120-foot-long Navy torpedo vessel is to the marsh outside of Charleston where it is has been grounded for four years. Now the owner, who bought the Navy boat in ...

Removing shipwrecked, abandoned or deserted boats from Bluffton waterways will now be a coordinated effort between the town, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and nearby jurisdictions ...

Beneath the peeling paint and rusted decks of derelict boats, there's a deeper human story. Oregon’s waterways face a crisis as abandoned and derelict boats pile up. Left behind by owners unable to ...