Stephanie Ballesteros is a digital managing editor at CBS Philadelphia. Before Stephanie joined the CBS Philadelphia team in February 2017, she wrote for WSVN in Miami, WAVY in Norfolk and FOX 29 in ...

A dozen beaches in Massachusetts are closed to the public for swimming on Thursday, according to the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH). One of those is the main beach at Walden Pond State ...

Heavy rainfall may have led to fecal contamination of beachwater. Beaches in several states across the Northeast have recently been closed to swimmers due to high levels of bacteria in the water.

The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday warned that Hurricane Erin will cause “life-threatening rip currents” across most beaches along the East Coast for the next few days as it moves northward ...

Hurricane Erin continues to spin out in the Atlantic Ocean with steady winds as strong as 105 mph, creating rough surf conditions and dangerous rip currents up and down the Jersey Shore on Tuesday.