An excavating company was ordered to stop the use of a sand-sifting machine by the Department of Planning after discovering it was being used at a Hamilton construction site without planning approval.

(AP) -- What's typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting machine spits clean sand ...

MUSKEGON, MI - Sugar sand -- better than ever, some even say -- has returned to the Pere Marquette Lake Michigan beach thanks to a new sifting machine. The City of Muskegon tried out the new machine ...

MUSKEGON, MI - Residents aren't the only ones who are concerned about rocks and other debris in the normally pristine sand at Pere Marquette Lake Michigan beach. Muskegon city officials also are ...

The city Santa Cruz created several safety measures to prevent drug use and stop dirty needles from ending up on their beaches.New tactics include closing the beach at night and a sifting machine that ...

The buzz of sand-sifting machines and the clattering ring of tiny rocks falling into trash barrels filled a normally quiet stretch of Gulf Islands National Seashore early Monday as work crews ...