Rapid-deployment, heavy-duty pontoon barge deployed to ferry 6,000 stranded people from flooded college in southern China.

Four people were rescued from the Merced River on Tuesday evening after their raft became stuck near Henderson Park, ...

The rescue, from dispatch to ambulance, took about six hours. The woman was then taken to Holy Cross Medical Center.

This driver ignored every warning sign possible and got stranded in deep floodwater until firefighters had to pull him out on an inflatable rescue raft. The car’s finished, the road’s flooded, and now ...

The U.S. Navy helped rescue 14 mariners stranded in the Northern Arabian Sea on Sunday, according to U.S. Central Command. After receiving a distress call, a Navy P-8 aircraft located the mariners and ...

Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a ...

“From what I've seen, I mean, for all of those people to survive is pretty miraculous,” said Maj. Elizabeth Piowaty Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first ...

As the first day of school approaches, volunteers across Palm Beach County are working to make sure thousands of students have the supplies they need. High heat risk with isolated storm chance High ...

Those on board, who were all Bahamian adults, spent about five hours stranded on a raft before rescuers hoisted them to safety. All were in stable condition, officials said. By Hannah Ziegler For five ...

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley lead the "human drama" in Harlin's attempt to recapture the commercial mojo of "Deep Blue Sea." When a once-successful director finds himself stranded in a wilderness of ...

A month of efforts to help a stranded humpback escape the Baltic Sea have culminated in a tourist and media spectacle, with no guarantee of success. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Poel, a German ...

A group was airlifted to shore Friday, March 27, after being stranded along the Russian River south of Healdsburg, authorities said over the weekend. Three people, an adult and two children, were ...