By Mary Hladky
A referendum preserving city-owned land along the Intracoastal Waterway for public use gained wide approval from residents in all parts of the city when they voted in the Nov. 8 election.
A precinct-by-precinct breakdown of votes
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By Steve Plunkett
The feature most wanted at Boca Raton’s Wildflower site by an admittedly unscientific sample of residents is a wide boardwalk along the Intracoastal Waterway, followed by a water taxi and space for paddleboards and kayaks.
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton’s environmental advisory board supports moving quickly on getting money from the Florida Inland Navigation District and the county to restore Lake Wyman.
Steve Alley, chairman of the panel, showed City Council m
Katelyn Cucinotta joins an Earth Day beach cleanup at Ocean Inlet Park.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Katelyn Cucinotta was walking on the beach after surfing not far from her Briny Breezes home a few years ago when she came acro
By Jane Smith
Repairing and replacing crumbling seawalls along the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach will cost about $25 million, according to an estimate by the city’s chief financial officer.
“You only have to look at the pictures of
By Jane Smith
Parking meter times east of the Intracoastal Waterway have changed again. Delray Beach users will again have to feed the meters only between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. seven days a week.
The previous hours of 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. lasted only
By Rich Pollack
Sparked in part by recent tragic events on the waterways in and around Florida, state Sen. Maria Sachs last month gathered representatives of the boating community and marine industries — along with law enforcement officials — to e
By Steve Plunkett
The proposed Houston’s restaurant at the old Wildflower site will have a breathtaking view of the Intracoastal Waterway, but it won’t have docks, the developer says.
And a fence will block access on the waterfront walkway to t
By Rich Pollack
The town of Highland Beach is not giving up on its efforts to get boaters on the Intracoastal Waterway to slow down and create less wake — at least not yet.
For more than a decade, residents living along the Intracoastal hav
The new Harbor Master building at Boynton Harbor Marina.
Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
The proposed marina master plan.
Rendering provided by Boynton Beach CRA
By Willie Howard
The Harbor Master building near the fuel docks at Boynton Harbor is
By Tim Pallesen
A proposal to allow personal watercraft rentals at the Atlantic Avenue bridge has coastal residents in an uproar.
City commissioners will hear the proposal to rent watercraft such as Jet Skis and Waverunners at the Deck 84 rest
By Mary Thurwachter
A plan to convert two town-owned lots into a waterfront park and parking lot got the green light from the Lantana Town Council in June.
But several neighbors to the side-by-side lots, at 106 and 122 N. Lake Drive on the
Supporters hope that water taxis like this one in Fort Lauderdale will soon be plying the waters of Palm Beach County. Photo provided
By Jane Smith
Water taxis may soon be traveling on the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach County.
The County
By Mary Thurwachter
For the second time in seven months, Lantana plans to splurge on a waterfront land purchase on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Ocean Avenue. The town will spend $965,000 for lots at 206, 210 and 302 N. Lak
By Tim O’Meilia
Manatees — those lovable, lumbering, cow-faced, half-ton marine mammals that putter along in Palm Beach County’s Intracoastal Waterway — will get extra protection from boaters this winter from six new boating speed zones. Th
By Tim O’Meilia
Manatees — those lovable, lumbering, cow-faced, half-ton marine mammals that putter along in Palm Beach County’s Intracoastal Waterway — will get extra protection from boaters this winter from six new boating speed zones in south co
Firefighters extinguish a blaze on a boat at Delray Harbor Club Marina. One man died in the fire. Photo courtesy of Delray Beach Fire-Rescue
By Rich Pollack
The 32-foot cabin cruiser, The Quarterdeck, had finished refueling at the Delray Harbor Club M
By Margie Plunkett
The buzz of Jet Skis on the Intracoastal Waterway likely won’t subside after Lantana’s Town Council denied issuing a business tax receipt to a rental company that serves the Ritz-Carlton. Captain Morgan’s Watercraft Rentals said
On a hot summer morning, the temperatures already topping the 80-degree mark at a little after 9 o’clock, key members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 54 have reported for duty.
Happily.
They’ve checked the boat from b
