After years of staffing shortages, the Canton Environmental Health Division hired four new staffers in 2025. Inspections are now on the rise.

Chapel Hill Mayor Jess Anderson spoke with 97.9 The Hill's Andrew Stuckey on Thursday, February 19, discussing town news and events.

To qualify for a job patrolling the city’s beaches and pools, candidates must swim 50 yards in 50 seconds or less.

Researchers from Texas A&M and UC Berkeley have successfully conducted the first large-scale experiment ...

The tradition dates back more than a century. Cornell claims credit as the first college to mandate swimming in 1905. MIT began its practice during World War II. Poor recordkeeping makes it hard to ...

The Youth Department of Vélez-Málaga has announced a new edition of lifeguard training courses specifically designed for young residents aged 16 to 30. The programme, run in collaboration with ...

The unsolved murder of Mary Kay Heese, 17, a high school junior from Wahoo, Nebraska, has hung over the community for five decades. Will what is believed to be the state's oldest cold case finally be ...

There’s little worse as a pool lifeguard than hearing the words “code brown” come through your radio. For swimmers on a hot ...

As water quality issues dominated headlines and nitrate levels spiked in central Iowa rivers last summer, the Izaak Walton League of America is reporting a record number of Iowans requested water ...

Texas State University’s Freeman Center Ranch is set to become home to a new solid rocket motor testing facility, raising concerns for some resident's due to its location.

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The State says arsenic levels were too high in a January water test, but the local water district says a an independent test came back beneath federal limits.