A family of six, including a child, has been rescued after spending close to 24 hours on an Alaska River amid stormy weather.

Bethel Search and Rescue's annual Nov. 18 survey found open water along the Kuskokwim, which is freezing faster near Bethel this year but still unsafe.

The Kuskokwim River provides local Yup’ik, Cup’ik, and Athabascan residents with one of the largest traditional fisheries in the world, with 50% of the annual diet in these communities made up ...

An ATV driver splashes their way through floodwaters along the Kuskokwim River shoreline in Bethel, Alaska on Sept. 17, 2022. (MaryCait Dolan/KYUK) Residents of low-lying villages in Alaska know ...

A few weeks ago, Mark Leary and his crew began to plow the snow off the frozen Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska. Every year, once the river freezes and the snow is cleared from the ice, dozens ...

In good winters, the Kuskokwim River ice road offers Bethel and nearby villages 200 or more miles of smooth travel along a frozen river route with an undercurrent of danger. This may not be one of ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, have jointly released a new topobathymetric lidar dataset for the Potomac River, extending from ...

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — The tribal commission formed to co-manage the Lower Kuskokwim's fish has laid out an approach to protect the river's salmon, voting down a resolution to allow larger nets ...

May 11—Communities along the Lower Kuskokwim River flooded this week as a spring breakup ice jam backed up water to the highest levels reported in nearly 20 years, authorities said. By Friday ...

Epiphany is celebrated to commemorate Jesus’ baptism in the River Jordan. John Paul pulls white fish from a set net alongside the Kuskokwim River ice road near Napaskiak, Alaska.

The USGS began building a river web camera network a few years ago, but technological upgrades and spring flooding have made them more popular than ever.