GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) — Campgrounds, environmental education facilities and welcome stations are reopening at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee.

PONTOON BEACH, Mo. (AP) — A 3-year-old Missouri boy died after police found him floating in the Mallard Lake area on Friday.

Pontoon Beach police said the boy was found unresponsive after he...

NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Discussions are underway to create a joint fishery management plan between Vermont and Quebec for Lake Memphremagog, which straddles both sides of the international border....

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A Lake Michigan community in southwestern Michigan is canceling a popular fireworks show months before the July 4 holiday.

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — Indiana's wildlife and environmental agencies are investigating the deaths of numerous ducks, geese and other waterfowl recently found dead around a northwestern Indiana...

BERRIEN CENTER, Mich. (AP) — Two men have been rescued from a lake in southwestern Michigan after one fell through thin ice while fishing.

SEATTLE (AP) — A large, destructive avalanche struck at Source Lake in Alpental Valley, one of Washington state's most popular backcountry areas, weather officials said.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has launched a program encouraging restaurants to reduce the use of plastic.

To take part, restaurants have to commit to study their plastic use and...

MEDINA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A man likely drowned after he and three others fell through ice while checking a lake for fishing, authorities said.

LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — The public is being warned to stay off the ice on Lake Opechee, where the water level is being dropped to allow repairs on the gate to a hydropower dam.

CAIRO (AP) — A boat capsized Monday in a lake near Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, leaving at least five people dead including three children, an official and state media...

BIRKENFELD, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has fined Fishhawk Lake Reserve and Community northwest of Portland $439,200 for draining a reservoir and allegedly killing more than 30,000...

BAYFIELD, Wis. (AP) — The striking ice caves on Lake Superior will not open this season.

Officials at northern Wisconsin's Apostle Islands National Lakeshore say the caves won't be...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities on Saturday confirmed two more fatalities tied to severe winter conditions, bringing the total deaths in the state to five.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — The state of Vermont is preparing a new management plan for the lakes, ponds, streams and wetlands that make up the upper Connecticut River watershed in Essex and...

BIRDSEYE, Ind. (AP) — A fire has destroyed 11 boats at Hoosier Hills Marina on Patoka Lake and damaged 11 others, Indiana conservation officers said.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Glamping may be coming to the shores of north Georgia's Lake Lanier, if a county can agree on zoning rules.

A mash up of glamorous and camping — glamping is a term...

BERLIN (AP) — A small plane crashed into Lake Constance on its approach to an airfield in northern Switzerland on Thursday, police said. The pilot was rescued.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it is holding off for now on fee hikes at some facilities at five lakes in its Nashville district.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A 22-year-old man who was out walking on the ice of Lake Champlain on the waterfront in Burlington died after falling through the ice, police said.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Twenty-six people fishing on Lake Superior were rescued when an ice floe broke away from the Minnesota shoreline, stranding them in frigid weather.

LAKE HATTIE TOWNSHIP, Minn. (AP) — Co-workers were able to save a man after the logging machine he was operating broke through some ice at a remote site in northern Minnesota.

DERIDDER, La. (AP) — More than 40,000 fish have been put into a southwest Louisiana lake to replace some of those lost to a fish kill caused by last year's hurricanes, the Louisiana Department of...

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — An outbreak of salmonella is killing finches across the western United States, including birds in the Lake Tahoe region, wildlife officials say.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says ice conditions are much better for fishermen on Maine lakes and ponds.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A citywide cleanup is planned in March in hopes of picking up much of the trash that still litters the streets of Lake Charles after Hurricanes Laura and Delta....

KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — Crews will resume rescue efforts Thursday for a missing skipper now presumed to have drowned after a boat was found unattended on Lake Washington near Juanita Bay Tuesday....

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — A gravel mine expansion near Lake Erie south of Anacortes has been appealed to the Skagit County Board of Commissioners.

LAKEVILLE, Maine (AP) — A community foundation's land protection grants will preserve hundreds of acres of forests, farms and shoreline in Maine this year.

HARRISON, Idaho (AP) — A 60-year-old Washington man died on Friday after falling through the ice at a lake in northern Idaho, Authorities said.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The predominantly Black farming communities on the shore of Florida's Lake Okeechobee will get a coronavirus vaccine station after a public outcry over a decision to...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Rescue crews pulled a couple and their dog to safety after all three fell through the ice of a western Omaha lake, officials said.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Georgia has signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that for the first time formally ratifies the rights of two suburban Atlanta counties to use Lake...

WOLVERINE LAKE, Mich. (AP) — A man riding a snowmobile on a frozen Michigan lake died Sunday afternoon when his vehicle crashed through the ice, authorities said.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is closing some areas to shrimping so large numbers of white shrimp found there can grow to marketable size, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said in a...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tests have revealed elevated levels of man-made chemicals known as PFAS in Madison-area lakes, state environmental officials said Thursday.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man is dead after falling through the ice on a lake.

Four ice fishermen were crossing Fort Peck Lake in two small off-road vehicles Saturday night when one...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — People in Lake Charles who need help paying their water bills will soon be able to apply for grants.

Mayor Nic Hunter told the American Press that the city...