Before you get in the ocean this Memorial Day weekend, look for rip currents. Here's how to identify them and how to escape, if you get caught.

Ahead of Memorial Day weekend, seven Jersey Shore beaches have been tested for bacteria and declared safe for swimming.

Lifeguards are on duty beginning Memorial Day and will remain through Labor Day, with roving patrols on some beaches through mid-October. Never swim alone. Lifeguards and information located on ...

For nearly five months, public agencies, advocacy groups and scientists have analyzed samples of seawater and sand in an ...

On one of those 26 unguarded beaches, Treasure Shores Beach Park, the rough surf on May 9 claimed the life of an 18-year-old Sebastian River High School student, Calvin Deshawn Peart. He only had six ...

A San Luis Obispo County surfer captured drone video of a great white shark swimming in the shallow waters off Pismo Beach on ...

Health officials are warning residents to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in the ocean water at two Los Angeles County beaches because the bacterial levels there exceed state health standards.

A Sebastian River High School senior died May 9, after getting caught in a rip current at Treasure Shores Park. Here's how to spot, swim out of one.