Residents in Alaska have been warned to evacuate as snowmelt from the Mendenhall Glacier, which is about 12 miles from Juneau ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...

This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...

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 ...

Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...

The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...

Evacuations are underway in parts of Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial outburst sent water rushing down the ...

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...

The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...

According to the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Juneau, the Mendenhall River crested at 16.65 feet – which now ...

These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...