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

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 ...

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

Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...

Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

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

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 ...

The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...

Current reports from the National Weather Service estimate the basin will be full Monday, but a release can happen at any ...

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

Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...