Mar. 7—Five people were seriously injured when a small plane crashed into a frozen lake in Southwest Alaska, state troopers said. Everyone in the plane survived the crash, which destroyed the Cessna ...

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska Lake Iliamna in Alaska is North America s eighth-largest lake, but nobody would mistake it for the Pacific Ocean. Not even a seabird. So when thousands of common murres were found ...

A volcano in Alaska that last erupted in 1867 is displaying signs of rumbling. Located roughly 140 miles southwest of Anchorage, Iliamna has been dormant for over a century. But on June 15, the Alaska ...

The head of United Tribes of Bristol Bay wrote recently in these pages, purportedly speaking on behalf of all residents of the region, about the proposed Pebble mine and actions by our governor to ...

In Alaska, harbor seals thrive in the chilled water of Iliamna Lake, sliding their blubbery bodies onto floating pieces of ice for a winter rest. This group of round-eyed water dwellers has remained a ...

Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals commonly move more than 200 kilometers. Researchers hypothesized that they move regularly between freshwater and marine habitats. Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals ...

A 36-year-old Iliamna man drowned last week when the boat he was on flipped in the Newhalen River, Alaska State Troopers said. Dwight Anelon and a woman with him had loaded an ATV onto a small skiff ...