beach access

The decision comes out of a dispute between two long-time neighbors.

There have been rising tensions between private beachfront homeowners and the public. The lawsuit challenges current Maine law, which extends property rights to the low tide line. The only exceptions are for "fishing, fowling, and navigation."

The issue is the subject of a lawsuit in state Superior Court, but members of the group Free Moody Beach say the town shouldn't wait years for a court decision to address what they describe as a growing source of contention in the community.

Privacy restrictions along Moody Beach are emblematic of a legal dispute between shoreline homeowners and public beachgoers who say they should be allowed to set out their towels along the roughly mile-long beach.

The amount of bacteria at the South Portland beach remains too high for Maine's safe swimming standards.

Maine's state government and nonprofit land trusts have bought and conserved hundreds of miles of coastline over the last two decades.

The long-running legal fight over access to the intertidal zone in Maine is headed to court once again. A group of nearly two-dozen Mainers plans to file suit over what they say is the loss of public recreation and commerce in what should be a public resource.

By Patrick Whittle, The Associated PressCUMBERLAND, Maine - Officials in a Maine town are asking a court to toss a lawsuit so it can create its first…

HARPSWELL, Maine - A Maine judge has ruled in the public's favor in a dispute over beach access on Bailey Island.Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills ruled…

CUMBERLAND, Maine (AP) _ A Maine town will ask voters if they want to spend $3 million to create a new public beach.The referendum would dedicate a…