In the dark of night on July 21, long-distance swimmer Catherine Breed emerged from Lake Tahoe at Skylandia Park, near Tahoe City, and cracked open a Pabst Blue Ribbon with her boyfriend.She’d just ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died last week after contracting a rare but deadly organism known as Naegleria fowleri while swimming July 18 in Lake Murray in Columbia, South ...

Charlotte Brynn winter swimming in Lake Willoughby. Photo courtesy of Charlotte Brynn/CNS Kate Kampner is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP/Gray News) - A boater in Nebraska was arrested after a 9-year-old boy was severely injured over the weekend at the Lake McConaughy State Recreation Area. According to the ...

For more than half a century, one of Texas' most famous and beloved waterways has prohibited swimming. But could that change sometime soon? The City of Austin implemented a ban on swimming in Lady ...