Liz O'Connell is a Newsweek Reporter based in North Carolina. Her focus is on pet news and videos. Liz joined Newsweek in 2023 and had previously worked at PetHelpful.com, the Charlotte Business ...

GASTONIA, N.C. (WTVD) -- A 6-year-old North Carolina girl drowned in her neighbor's above-ground pool Saturday. The pool was in a Gastonia backyard that was secured by a locked pool gate. However, ...

The California Department of Water Resources will open the gates on the Sacramento Weir Monday for the first time since January 2006. Widespread flooding of the Yolo Bypass is expected, the department ...

WEST SACRAMENTO – Water can be seen coming over the gates at the Sacramento Weir on Wednesday as the leading edge of a significant storm hits Northern California. The weir is one of several along the ...

Tenders are being called to replace software which is believed to have caused the Torrens Lake weir to malfunction earlier this year. An investigation found that a software fault was the most likely ...

Drowning is one of the top causes of unintentional deaths for children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) A 2-year-old boy in Florida has ...

A 5-year-old girl drowned Wednesday in a swimming pool behind a vacant house next door to her home on Jeannette Drive in Metairie after apparently getting into the yard through a broken gate. It was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. YOLO COUNTY — Workers opened up several ...