A 15-year-old boy from Omaha, Neb., drowned earlier this month while swimming in the Elk River in southern Missouri.

The implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. pulp mill in Longview, Wa. is among the worst workplace disasters in state ...

Passchendaele’s living nightmare: Soldiers trapped in a sea of mud and death In the flooded wasteland of Passchendaele, soldiers didn’t just fight the enemy—they fought the earth itself. Men drowned ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Drowning remains one of the leading causes of death for young children in the United States —which is why two local Toledo groups are hoping education can help save lives before summer ...

The father said the boy was trying to wash his feet near the edge, when he slipped and fell; the cousin who accompanied the ...

Specialist divers found five of seven people trapped for a week in a flooded cave in Laos alive on Wednesday, with one rescuer saying their extraction from its terminal chamber was the next challenge.

From Arnold Schwarzenegger saving a drowning swimmer to licensed pilot Harrison Ford using his flight skills to rescue hikers ...

Firefighters, police and paramedics had been sent to the scene ...

Employees with a local boat tour agency jumped into to rescue a deer stuck in a marsh. But it was clear the animal was badly ...

For most people who have ever opened an introductory geology book, the Grand Canyon arrives as a single, tidy picture. Sand at the bottom, mud above it, limestone on top, all sweeping gently across an ...