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The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...
Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...
University of Alaska Southeast environmental science professor Eran Hood recalled that it was a sunny summer day in 2011 when an unexpected and potentially perilous situation began to unfold. The ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
KTOO’s Alix Soliman is part of the team reporting on this year’s glacial outburst flood. She spoke to Alaska Public Media's ...
Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...
“A glacial outburst has occurred at Suicide Basin. The basin is releasing and flooding is expected along Mendenhall Lake and River,” Juneau officials said in a news release on Tuesday. Residents in ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town. Since 2011, ...