The New England Center for Investigative Reporting earlier this year spent two months piecing together the story of a Scituate, Mass. house that collected taxpayer-financed flood claims at least nine times in the past 35 years. Its owner was in the process of applying for her second taxpayer-funded grant in a decade to elevate the $1.2 million home. But we don’t know if she got it.

The numbers speak volumes about Milford, Connecticut’s vulnerability to sea level rise: 4,000 structures in a flood plain – a whopping 900 of them damaged…

New England's “sand wars” continue to simmer as communities debate who should pay to protect the New England coast from the ocean’s fury. Newbury…

From Westerly, Rhode Island to Eliot, Maine, debates over who gets sand, who pays for it and where it comes from are fast becoming some of the region’s most contentious oceanfront issues. In many cases, taxpayers are being asked to foot some of the bill for beach-rebuilding projects.