Deep in rural Wakayama, a centuries-old river rafting tradition is making waves with its first-ever female crew member steering both the raft and a cultural shift.

Log rafting was once a means of transporting timber, but now it’s the tourist draw of a tiny Wakayama village.

Floating down the Buffalo River in a replica of the Edward M. Cotter fireboat reminded John Needham of his roots. The lifelong Old First Ward resident passed by hulking grain ...

Towing company drags massive log out of Blue River 02:55. In the moments when local rafters believed the rafting season for the Upper Blue River was over (after a tree fell across the river ...

The raft crew of Western States 100 who shuttle runners across the American River at mile 78 have seen it all ...

Scene: A log raft floats down the Mississippi. Huckleberry Finn and the runaway slave Jim are journeying toward freedom -- and friendship, in an unlikely time. Together, they sing about the muddy ...

He then swam to shore as his raft floated down the river without him. Almost exactly two years prior, Gray's brother, 63-year-old Robert Gray, was killed after flipping a raft in nearly the exact ...

The victim is thought to be Thomas Robinson, 58, from Santa Fe, New Mexico. The body of a man who had been traveling down the Colorado River on a wooden raft has been found in Grand Canyon ...

3 states agree to take less water from drought-strained Colorado River 02:04. The body of a New Mexico man has been recovered from the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park more than two ...

Eight people survived after their raft flipped on the Crystal River near the Penny Hot Springs on Sunday afternoon, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.

SNOHOMISH — Mike Rustay likes log jams, for good reason. “We like log jams especially along the edge of the river,” said Rustay, senior habitat specialist with Snohomish County.