Leonardo “Leo” Hackley was an adventurous young boy, very joyful, funny and he was a complete light to everyone who knew him.

Alaska’s rate of drowning deaths continues to be high, a new state report says. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaska has the nation’s highest rate of drowning deaths, and the rate was ...

The Maynard family, including two boys, were fishing on the 28-foot boat when it sank last August. Divers found the boat and ...

A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in the Alaska estuary of Turnagain Arm became submerged up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before ...

Alaska State Troopers received a call reporting a drowning in progress in Cloudy Lake in Meadow Lakes. After receiving the call troopers immediately dispatched and went to the location and entered the ...

An Alaska man is presumed to have drowned on a glacial lake after authorities recovered footage from a helmet-mounted GoPro that appeared to reveal his fate. But his body remains missing.

The man's wife had to hold his head above water to prevent him from drowning after the boulder "crashed onto him" while they were hiking near a creek, authorities said ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for three hours survived the ordeal with only minor injuries, thanks in part to his ...

An Alaska man survived being pinned face-down by a 700-pound boulder in a creek after his wife held his head above water to prevent him from drowning, officials say. The harrowing incident ...

The loss of the CDC's drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on ...