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 ...

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...

The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...

Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...

In 2023, a glacier lake outburst at Mendenhall's Suicide Basin destroyed several structures along the Mendenhall River as the ...

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

City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...

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.

These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...