A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...

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

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

Zaz Hollander is a veteran journalist based in the Mat-Su and is currently an ADN local news editor and reporter. She covers ...

The Mendenhall River crested and began dropping Wednesday morning as a glacial outburst sent billions of gallons of water coursing through one of the most populated parts of Juneau. Destruction this ...

Officials in recent days have been warning people in the flood zone to be ready to evacuate. On Tuesday morning they ...

At left, homes and streets in the Mendenhall Valley are swamped by record flooding from the Mendenhall River on Aug. 6. At center, students crowd into the commons area of Juneau-Douglas High ...

Members of the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé hockey team help Mendenhall Valley residents affected by the record Aug. 6 flood fill more than 3,000 sandbags earlier this month. (JHDS ...

The reigning Alaska Baseball League champions avoided elimination and forced a winner-take-all Game 3 in the Top of the World series.

Most of the Juneau Empire’s staff have left the publication to work for the upstart local news source.

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