KIRKLAND, Wash. — The Houghton Beach swimming area will be closed for at least one week due to elevated bacteria levels. Seattle and King County Public Health officials are urging people and pets to ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — If you're planning on taking a trip to the beach and a dip in the ocean, make sure you avoid these few beaches across the Tampa Bay area. Beaches in Hillsborough and Manatee ...

KING COUNTY, Wash. — King County is changing how it makes decisions regarding when a beach closes and reopens, they say, for the better. Apparently the criteria the county has been using to close and ...

CONWAY, Ark. — We're all trying to find ways to beat the heat, and for a lot of us, that means going for a swim. However, if you choose to go to a public swimming beach — be warned. Seven swim beaches ...

Midtown Beach is back under a no-swim advisory, after an Oct. 6 Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County water-quality sample again found high levels of enterococci bacteria, said a Palm ...