Come along and see what views await you on the Sacramento River, California's largest river and one of USA TODAY's Most Treasured Views.

California is packed with wild, beautiful places to swim— if you know where to look. Here’s where to find them. No resort pass or beach sticker required.

Still dissatisfied with the conclusions of an administrative investigation into allegations that employees in the Shasta ...

Placer County and the sheriff’s office are reminding the community to keep the Lake Tahoe Basin beaches clean and to follow the county’s beach ordinances this summer.

As summer arrives, Lake Tahoe's beaches are ramping up efforts to maintain their pristine condition through the expanded ...

The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office rescued a kayaker from the banks of Battle Creek on Sunday night after she started a small ...

Two Jersey Shore bay beaches and two lake beaches have been placed under swimming advisories as of Tuesday for elevated levels of bacteria, according to the state’s beach monitoring program.

The Great Lakes use a color-coded beach flag system to inform the public ... narrow channels of fast-moving water flowing from the shore to deeper lake water. They can happen quickly and are ...

The Garden State might as well be renamed the Beach State, because we have more than 140 miles of absolutely gorgeous shoreline with supreme sandy beaches. New Jersey has such an abundance of ...

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