Flooding from the basin has become an annual concern, and in recent years has swept away houses and swamped hundreds of homes ...

Sections of Alaska’s capital city are bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters due to rainwater and ...

“What a difference a year makes,” she said. “There’s a lot of relief just driving around and instead of people depressed, sad ...

City Manager Katie Koester told Alaska’s News Source there was significantly less damage than last year and credited the ...

After the water receded from this week’s all-time record breaking glacial outburst flood, Mendenhall Valley residents spent ...

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

Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.

Mendenhall River runs through Juneau, Alaska. The river rose to a record level, but temporary barriers largely kept major ...

A glacial lake outburst flood in the Sikkim Himalayas in October 2023 damaged more than 30 bridges and destroyed a 200-foot-high (60 meters) hydropower plant. Residents had little warning. By the time ...

Despite a one day delay for most students due to flooding, Juneau School District staff reported it was a relatively normal ...