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City officials say the HESCO barriers sustained around $1 million in damage during the 2025 glacial outburst flood.
When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...
Six homes sustained damage considered major, according to early assessments that also found repairs to a damaged bridge will ...
Officials are exploring a buyout program that would pay willing residents of View Drive, unprotected by Mendenhall River ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
The service interruptions have affected AT&T, GCI, Verizon and Visible, according to Upper Lynn Canal residents.
A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in ...
For three years in a row, Juneau has had unprecedented flooding in August from a melting glacier. This year, officials built a levee to protect the city. It seems to have helped, but it's temporary.
It’s a complex topic, but we’re going to make sense of it. Juneau is under threat of flooding due to what’s known as a ...