While surfers stretched and squeezed on their wetsuits one October morning, a biologist dipped a test jar into the Pismo Lagoon. For seven years, retired biologist Dr. Stanley Rice has taken regular ...

How do you really know whether the water you're wading in, swimming or paddling in is safe? Should you even let your dog drink it? The risks make headlines every summer: bacteria from sewage or ...

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. (WMBF) - Beachgoers enjoyed the ocean water on Monday, but Sunday was a different story. The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) found increased levels of ...

Enterococcus bacteria was found at Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Fort Myers Beach on Jan. 7, according to the Florida Department of Health.

GALVESTON, Texas — Headed to the beach to cool off this summer? The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has a way for you to check how much bacteria associated with fecal matter you could be exposed to.

Fecal bacteria at Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Fort Myers Beach now cleared, Florida health officials say, but why was it there in the first place?