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A popular Neuse River access point in Raleigh has been blocked off after a series of drownings there.
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Raleigh's Veronica Fraley will throw the discus in Paris at the 2024 Olympic Games. She joins a long list of Olympians with North Carolina ties that includes Steph Curry, Bam Adebayo and Anna Cockrell.
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Lifeguards on a beach in North Carolina's Outer Banks have posted a new purple flag that is adorned with images of a jelly fish and a stringray.The…
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Wake County is encouraging its 1,600 public pools to shock treat their water to kill a diarrhea-causing parasite.Twenty cases of cryptosporidiosis have…
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This summer, even the most crowded pools are struggling to hire enough lifeguards, and are cutting hours as a result. In a rebounding economy, teens are opting for higher-paying jobs or no job at all.
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It’s National Rip Current Awareness Week. Rip currents killed at least seven people along the North Carolina coast last year, according to the National…
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Safety officials on the coast are trying to make beachgoers more aware of rip currents. Those are the narrow channels of waves that can pull swimmers…
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The U.S. Olympic swimming trials are underway in Omaha, Nebraska, and several North Carolinians have already qualified for the Olympic team headed to…