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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 ...
Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...
The NWS in Juneau issued a flood warning for parts of the area around the Mendenhall River. A "crest" is expected Wednesday ...
Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacier is threatening significant, potentially record-breaking flooding in Juneau ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
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 ...
A fter cresting at a record-breaking 16.65 feet at 7:15 a.m., the Mendenhall River level is falling “very quickly” following ...
“A glacial outburst has occurred at Suicide Basin. The basin is releasing and flooding is expected along Mendenhall Lake and ...