Rafting News

A 17-year-old boy from Fraser, Colo., drowned Saturday after the raft he was riding in flipped in whitewater near Moab.

Kittitas County Marine Units rescue a Renton man from the Yakima River. Deputies say Shawn Smith was rafting with friends Friday night when he went over a diversion dam.

EUGENE, Ore. - Going river rafting this holiday weekend? Bring a life jacket. It's the law.

With prices up and the stock market down, many families are finding themselves a little cash-strapped this summer vacation season.

There are two companies in Tahoe City that rent rafts, and transport you back to your starting point after your trip down the river.

Price: $86 for adults and $66 for children . What it includes: an all-day pass to the Hot Springs Pool, half-day float on the Colorado River through the Glenwood Canyon with Rock Gardens Rafting and one all-inclusive ride pass to Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, including the tram ride to the park.

The body of a Front Range school administrator who went missing on the Colorado River last month was found Wednesday just upstream from Rancho del Rio.

On Friday, athletes of all abilities gathered in Eagle County for the World T.E.A.M. Sports Adventure Team Challenge.

A man in his mid 20s drowned late Monday afternoon in the South Fork of the American River during a whitewater rafting guide training.

A Macon County waterfall's gushing water and an angled rock created a deadly wedge that trapped and killed a Florida man.

ASPEN, Colorado - At least all the cold weather in late May and early June was good for something.

The Boy Scouts of America are buying 10,600 acres in Fayette County where they'll build what they're calling a "high-adventure base" beside the New River Gorge National River park.

A man drowned Monday afternoon while rafting near Coloma State Park, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said.

A Boy Scout leader who fell into the Snake River during a rafting trip died Friday.

Float and feast: The OARS wilderness gourmet adventure takes you down Oregon's rugged Rogue River and teaches you how to cook.

DeKALB – A teacher at St. Mary School in DeKalb died Thursday evening in a rafting accident on the Vermilion River in Oglesby, in LaSalle County.

One man was arrested and a second one given a summons after cops spotted them up in a tree in Pier A Park early Sunday morning.

PROGRAMMING NOTE>>> CBS News will air a 1-Hour Special tonight on the death of Michael Jackson.

While in Boise on assignment, I signed up on my day off for an all-day whitewater rafting trip with Cascade Raft & Kayak Co.

Emergency workers at work during a rescue on the Lehigh River between Parryville and Bowmanstown in Carbon County on Saturday afternoon after several rafts of the White Water Challengers overturned.