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Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...
These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and ...
Officials say new sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Juneau, Alaska’s capital, have held back record levels of ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
Zaz Hollander is a veteran journalist based in the Mat-Su and is currently an ADN local news editor and reporter. She covers ...
An overflowing glacial lake at the foot of Suicide Glacier north of Juneau, Alaska, caused the Mendenhall River to surge to ...