Troopers say Cole Gilila was riding with another boy Saturday when the snowmachine went through the ice near Kalskag.

Troopers said the incident happened about 8 miles upriver from Kalskag, and one juvenile was able to get out of the river to ...

A 15-year-old boy whose snowmobile fell through a hole into an icy river was found dead, Alaska State troopers reported. The ...

One teen is dead, and another was able to climb out of an icy river after a tragic snowmobile accident in southwestern Alaska ...

Cole Gilila, 15, and a friend were riding the snow machine on the Kuskokwim River on Saturday when it fell through the ice, ...

A search and rescue operation was launched after Cole Gilila vanished under the ice while driving a snowmobile.

The Kuskokwim River ice continues to be variable as the winter season progresses. On Wednesday, Bethel Search and Rescue flew its second aerial survey of the lower Kuskokwim River to see how ...

A tragic snow machine accident on the Kuskokwim River on January 4, 2025, led to the death of 15-year-old Cole Gilila.

I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he and his wife would pick summer berries on a ...

Huddling before my computer on a September afternoon, I was transported virtually to a community center in the town of Bethel, Alaska, population 6,300.

Those arguments have now intensified as the federal and state governments clash over subsistence salmon fishing in the Kuskokwim River, a site where salmon runs have dwindled. Many Native leaders ...

(Editor’s note: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. This story originally headlined “Environmental group grants lifetime award to former President Carter for his Alaska ...