Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) The water at a Storm Lake beach this week had about 50 times the amount of bacteria that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 200 gallons of untreated sewage may have spilled into the lake in the 2300 block of Smith Harbour Drive in Denver, Lincoln ...

LONESOME LAKE—Whit Coleman belly flopped with style into some of Wyoming’s most famous alpine waters on Wednesday. Out on a father-son backpacking trip with friends, the Salt Lake City man took the ...

More recent water quality results mean the crowded Wind River Range lake won’t face ‘impaired’ listing, but the improvement ...

Update: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Table Rock Project Office reopened the swim beach at Cape Fair Campground on Tuesday, June 4, after testing showed bacteria levels within the acceptable range ...

The murky mocha-colored water in Lake Augusta is as off-putting as the source of its pollution: bird droppings, lots of them. Every fall, thousands of migrating double-crested cormorants roost in the ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It was their 31st wedding anniversary, and one of them spent it on the toilet. She had been sitting there for days. Not just one strain of bacteria had rioted in the body of Suzi ...

VINITA — It began with goose poop. Officials think the droppings left by a flock of geese on a Grand Lake beach last Memorial Day weekend, followed by heavy rain, were initially responsible for the ...