The materials — sand and water — are readily available. The secrets lie in technique. Start with wet sand, about a 50-50 mix of water and sand.

Remember how much fun it was to take a plastic pail and shovel to the beach and spend hours in the sand building sandcastles?

Sand Castles, which began in 2000, is an annual Racine Arts Council event which has grown increasingly more popular as a spectator event. Ten teams competed from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, when ...

We've all been there, on the beach, looking at our sad, wet, dilapidated sand castle and wondering what went wrong. Science has the answer, of course.

Malyka Chop along with his team of Alameda, build a castle during the 52nd Annual Sand Castle & Sand Sculpture Contest in Alameda, Calif., on Saturday, June 2, 2018. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) ...

American artist has built what might be the world’s largest sand castle. View of a 12-meter-high sand castle that aims to be the world highest sand castle in Niteroi, Brazil, Nov. 11, 2014 ...