Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. For nearly 150 years, the Piedras Blancas ...

A lens manufactured in France in 1902 is shining high atop Montauk Point Lighthouse once again. Earlier this month the U.S. Coast Guard relit the clamshell-shaped Fresnel lens, which guided mariners ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just under a month after the restoration and preservation of the Tybee Lighthouse was completed, a prism has shattered. According ...

The unique history of the Crooked River Lighthouse’s lens in Carrabelle, Florida. The Crooked River Lighthouse’s Executive Director, Steve Allen, shares with us the unique qualities of the Fresnel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work started Monday on a project to apply film to a tall glass structure surrounding the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse lens to ...

Jul 10, 2025 Jul 10, 2025 Updated Jul 22, 2025 PLUM ISLAND — For over 100 years the same Fresnel lens has been illuminating the land and sea surrounding the Plum Island Lighthouse. Now that the lens ...

State of the art, one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World, the great lighthouse of Alexandria, built around 280 B.C., towered some 450 feet above Egypt's greatest harbor. At that height, it was ...

Just under a month after the restoration and preservation of the Tybee Lighthouse was completed, a prism has shattered. According to Tybee Island Historical Society Director Sarah Jones, part of the ...