The "cold, exhausted" paddleboarder wasn't wearing a life vest and was found 100 yards from the shore after a caller said she was separated from her board and had gone "under the water," firefighter said. Officials put her in a rescue boat and she was taken to the shore to be evaluated by medical personnel, officials said.

Rescuers are searching for 19 people missing in severe flooding in Nepal that swept away a key bridge connecting the country with China.

The claim circulated as rescuers searched for people missing from Camp Mystic, a Christian girls summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

The 30-year-old hiker from Danbury, Connecticut, was hiking the Great Gulf Trail in Thompson and Meserve’s Purchase on July 5 when she grew exhausted and took some falls, suffering minor injuries, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said in a news release.

Rescuers in Switzerland are hailing as a "four-legged hero" a furry Chihuahua that paced atop an Alpine rock after its owner fell into a crevasse.

EXCLUSIVE: When Russia launched its brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, among the first defenseless victims were animals in a zoo in Kharkiv, very close to the Russian border. Big cats, bears,

A teenage Australian surfer feared lost at sea was rescued after spending the night on an uninhabited island miles offshore, officials and local media said.

ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI — Multiple agencies responded to Lake Michigan on Tuesday, July 8, for a report of an unaccounted person who is believed to have been in the water, police said. The Allegan County Sheriff’s Office responded to Lake Michigan north of Saugatuck for a water emergency Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office said.