swimming

They're not uncommon in Washington lakes and bodies of standing water, but you don't want to contact them.
They're blue-green algae blooms, or Cyranobacteria. Grant County Health District officials have posted new signs around Moses Lake, indicating their latest tests came back positiv…

Palouse Falls Posts Harsh and Blunt Warning Signs

Free Swim Friday's Are Back at Pasco Pool

Yes, people have been doing it for decades, swimming in the Yakima River. For many it presents what they think is a 'safer' alternative to the mighty and sometimes intimidating Columbia.
But nothing could be further from the truth, say officials...

Franklin County Sheriff's reported Monday the search for a reported victim in the water just below Palouse Falls has been called off due to rough water that kept divers from being able to search.
Around 5:30pm Friday, they got a call from two men in their 20's who said their third friend ha…

Helen Chitty and her husband Howard, started Chitty's Swimland in 1958 in Richland. They pulled out the lawn and dug a 20 x 40-foot swimming pool.

Authorities continue to search for the body of a 22-year-old man who most likely drowned at Palouse Falls. Columbia Basin Dive Rescue continues to search under and around the waterfall for the as yet unidentified man. (UPDATE SEE BELOW)

For nearly seven weeks,  the pumping had been illegally draining water from a creek near Los Gatos CA.

Summer is on its way and will be here before you know it. Here are the community pools around the area and the dates they will be open for the 2014 season:

Ahh, summer. 'Tis the season of watermelon art, diving fails and-- you guessed it-- belly flops. When we were kids, this pool move was awesome. But nowadays... who are we kidding? It's still (painfully) awesome!