Rafting News

House passage of legislation designating an Oregon river as wild and scenic was a strong victory for conservation, Republicans for Environmental Protection, a national grassroots organization, said today.

Seven decades after joining the Boy Scouts, retired engineering and construction magnate Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.

Submitted by WDEF on November 18, 2009 - 7:37pm. A A A A The cleanup is still in the preliminary stages at the rockslide on Highway 64.

Nate Wight's summer came to a quick end when he broke his foot on a river rafting trip.

"I was lobstering summers here for a while when I came here to teach around 1959.

There may be some snow outside my window this morning and the rivers are low in Colorado, but elsewhere it's not too late to go rafting on many rivers.

U.S. Highway 64 through the Ocoee Gorge will be closed for a week, maybe more, after a series of rock slides crashed across the highway Tuesday.

Colenso, Maria. "How White-water Rafting Works." 21 April 2008. HowStuffWorks.com. 09 November 2009.

ANUSHA K. overcomes her fear of ferocious rapids and heights by going white-water rafting and abseiling down a waterfall cliff.

Waking in a sleeping bag to a cold, bone-drenching rain on the fifth day of their nine-day raft trip down the Rogue River, Sam Jackson and his two childhood pals wondered whether this adventure would match up to what it looked like on paper.

Grand Teton Lodge Company has settled a lawsuit in which relatives of 3 people who died in a 2006 rafting accident on the Snake River claimed the company was negligent.

When Laura Arnold planned a trip with a friend to go on a Florida vacation, she didn't realize it would all begin with a life-saving experience.

THE partner of a Welsh holidaymaker killed on a white-water rafting expedition on a Turkish river yesterday relived the moment he was washed away from their capsized boat.

Writer Stanley Stewart took an adventure ride out of Moab and came away singing the praises of southern Utah's red rock country and whitewater rapids .

Chattanooga, Tennessee's fourth largest city, should be remembered by visitors for much more than a choo-choo song.

Federal authorities say three men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a scheme that allowed wealthy people to get tax benefits from investments in thoroughbred horse breeding.

A jury in Cheyenne must decide whether a 2006 rafting accident that killed three people on the Snake River was strictly a tragic accident or the result of a private company's negligence.

Shimla: Rafting would be introduced in river Baes to boost tourism activities in Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said on Saturday.

Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 19 October, 2009 : - - Honolulu -- Hawaiian veteran lifeguard and big-wave rider Archie Kalepa is no stranger to life-changing experiences.

White water rafting is a new form of adventure sports in India. It is a thrilling sport that is mostly played on the turbulent water of mountainous rivers of north India.