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Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
By Wednesday morning, the floodwaters racing down from what’s called Suicide Basin rose to record levels, faster than ...
Water from the Mendenhall Glacier is surging to unprecedented heights this week, forcing evacuations in Alaska’s capital and ...
The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. The river is in major flood stage at 16.17 feet and rising, the agency said. That surpasses the record ...
The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning and initial Mendenhall River flood forecast of around 16.6 feet. That record peak is expected Wednesday afternoon.
These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...
Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
Juneau, Alaska, braces for potentially record-breaking flooding as the Mendenhall River is expected to exceed 16 feet, ...
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...
The temporary levee the city installed along the Mendenhall River this year protected hundreds of homes nearby. But water ...