Iliamna Lake harbor seals, members of one of the world's five freshwater seal populations, rest on the ice surface of Alaska's biggest lake in this undated photo. Their ability to live in an ...

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 ...

A search was ongoing Tuesday morning for a man who reportedly washed out of a boat on Lake Iliamna, Alaska State Troopers said. Two men had taken a skiff Sunday evening from Igiugig and were traveling ...

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 ...

Spies and reporters know the value of blending in. You want to be the gray man, and observe as much as you can without attracting attention to yourself. That wasn't going to happen in Iliamna. I flew ...

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 ...

Responders at the site of the March 5 plane crash on Lake Iliamna. (Alaska State Troopers photo) A plane carrying five adults crashed about eight miles southwest of Iliamna around 1 p.m. on Saturday, ...

All at once the Cherokee veered left, then right, while suddenly losing a hundred feet or more of altitude in the same instant. I struggled to control the aircraft, to maintain airspeed and ...

In 2013, Bjørn Olson decided to fatbike and packraft from Cook Inlet to Bristol Bay via the northern shore of 77-mile long Lake Iliamna. He joked — well, it might not entirely be a joke — that he was ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to ban and restrict mining of the huge copper and gold Pebble deposit in Southwest Alaska has been widely viewed as the final blow to the project. But at ...