A shark bit a Florida teenager on the leg during a lifeguard training camp Monday morning, officials said. The attack occurred near the Ponce Inlet lifeguard tower shortly before noon, Volusia County ...

Good Samaritans helped free a lifeguard from the Seal Beach Pier after his buoy tangled around a railing while he tried to rescue someone. Witness Hayden Nguyen said he watched in horror as the ...

The lifeguard, who was conscious and alert, was taken to a hospital. A lifeguard is in the hospital after she was impaled by an umbrella at a New Jersey beach on Wednesday morning, officials said. The ...

Lifeguard shortages closed thousands of pools and beaches during the COVID-19 pandemic, when social distancing requirements disrupted training and rising wages lured some workers to other summer jobs.

The United States, you may have heard, is in a lifeguard shortage. The city of Houston is offering new lifeguards a $500 bonus. Jackson, Mississippi, is raising lifeguard pay by more than 40 percent.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has given the green light to a proposal that would lower the minimum age for certified lifeguards from 16 to 15 in order to help alleviate the shortage that has hampered the ...

With cities across Washington looking to hire enough lifeguards to open pools, there are a number of programs that offer certifications for the job. Seattle’s well-loved East Green Lake Beach, ...

The family of a 34-year-old New Jersey man who drowned in a swimming pool at a Pennsylvania apartment complex last summer has filed a lawsuit accusing the lifeguard of failing to protect swimmers.

Six Jersey Shore towns collectively carry a deficit worth tens of millions of dollars in their lifeguard pension system, according to a state watchdog’s report that suggests the system has become ...