After the project cost skyrocketed, the Assembly voted to scale back the protection plan for this year’s flood. The Army ...
The National Weather Service has announced a special weather statement declaring that Suicide Basin in Juneau has reached capacity and is showing signs of over-topping. They note that in the past, it ...
Update Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.: The flood threat from Suicide Basin has ended, officials said Wednesday afternoon, and waters have receded. Evacuated areas are now open to residents only. Back Loop ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt downstream, ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city of Juneau. But, flood barriers installed by the city managed to prevent ...
JUNEAU, Alaska – The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial lake outburst sent debris-filled water rushing down ...
Record-high floodwaters threatened Juneau, Alaska, as a glacial outburst made it past a natural ice dam formed by the Mendenhall Glacier, CBS News reported. Officials did not mince words when telling ...
The National Weather Service has canceled the flood warning for Mendenhall Lake and River. Juneau’s second glacial outburst flood of the year crested Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at 9.6 feet. A second, ...
The basin’s second release has come to an end, the National Weather Service says. Mendenhall Lake observed a crest of 9.6 feet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, and lake and river levels have been falling ...