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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals have been difficult to study because of their remoteness. Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals Alaska’s Iliamna Lake harbor seals 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 ...