The July 7 report from Environment America Research and Policy Center found that 61% of tested beaches nationwide had ...

A new report reveals contaminated beach conditions in Washington, raising health concerns for summer visitors.

On July 4, tens of thousands descend on the Long Beach Peninsula. The crowds and leftover garbage have spurred some peninsula residents to say enough is enough.

A Seattle teen was hospitalized Tuesday night after being submerged in the water for several minutes in Lake Washington, alarming Kirkland officials and beachgoers.

It’s a Godless 90 degrees. You’ve escaped the inferno of your non-airconditioned apartment and high-tailed it to Madison ...

An 18-year-old man was hospitalized following a near drowning incident in Lake Washington, officials reported on Tuesday ...

A seaside escape is always a popular summer activity, particularly for Fourth of July festivities, but with potentially harmful bacteria in various bodies of water, some beaches could be closed this ...

The cost and need for fresh injections of sand is growing thanks to climate change even as funding for the beach-building projects grows more tenuous.

A Seattle man, 18, is in the hospital after being rescued from Lake Washington at Houghton Beach Park in Kirkland. The incident occurred Tuesday night, when the man was swimming with his friends and ...

— -- A harbor seal pup was recently euthanized by wildlife officials in Washington state after it was carried off a beach by a woman who mistakenly thought the seal had been abandoned ...

In this Saturday, Oct, 31, 2011, photo, Bela Kovacs talks about a custom machine that separates gold from beach sand during a beach mining demonstration at Boone Creek on Roosevelt Beach, Wash.