A Calgary golfer is being credited with saving a seven-year-old boy in the Sheep River south of the city on Friday.

Halifax Regional Police say they were called to the lake at around 3:10 p.m., to assist Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency and Emergency Health Services.

Paramedics said they received a call at 11:47 a.m. for reports of a drowning at a residential building in the area of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Eglinton Avenue.

A man has died and his two sons are still fighting for their lives after a drowning incident at an apartment complex pool Sunday evening.

Police and paramedics were called to the facility on Ellis Avenue just before 8 p.m. Friday.

Police say the man who nearly drowned was transported to hospital in serious condition, but has since been released from hospital with improved health.

The individual was pulled from the water and brought to shore, but due to the darkness, the group had to wait until morning to be rescued, officers said.

"They were quite far out when I heard them. They were all clinging to the inner tubes and an air mattress."

Emergency workers responded to a near-drowning and a motorcycle crash, while the local Coast Guard branch in Cobourg was called on to help a stranded sailboat.

16-year-old Ryan McIlwain was getting some fresh air on his work break from Lakefield Foodland when he heard cries for help along the Otonabee River.