New report from fiscal watchdog group OpenTheBooks found lifeguards in Los Angeles County earn massive salaries, with one making over $500,000 in 2024.

The city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, says it was unable to find lifeguards to work at its largest lake this summer. Experts say the problem goes far beyond Western Massachusetts.

RNLI Senior Lifeguard Bosco McAuley was out on a rescue board patrolling the busy beach when he noticed the two swimmers near a developing rip current. Although the weather was calm and warm, the swell had picked up and formed a flash rip current.

Due to a continued shortage of applicants, Onota Lake in Pittsfield will once again have no lifeguards for the summer, with swim-at-your-own-risk signs posted at Burbank Park.

Chincoteague Mayor Denise Bowden is worried because President Donald Trump's administration never hired 13 lifeguards to protect people thronging the national seashore beaches in Virginia and Maryland.

The lifeguard shortage in B.C. has seen improvement, with the Lifesaving Society of B.C. & Yukon finding there are more lifeguards than during the pandemic years. But as Renée Lukacs reports, municipalities are still facing staffing challenges,

Several Maine beach communities are desperately looking for ways to increase the number of lifeguards.The city of Biddeford currently only has 12 lifeguards to cover its beaches and parts of the Saco River,

Lifeguards resuscitated a 3-year-old child found unresponsive Tuesday at the Altoona Aquatic Center, according to information from the Altoona Fire Department.