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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 ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
KTOO’s Alix Soliman is part of the team reporting on this year’s glacial outburst flood. She spoke to Alaska Public Media's ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...
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 ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...
Current reports from the National Weather Service estimate the basin will be full Monday, but a release can happen at any ...