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Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
A powerful surge of glacial meltwater is once again testing Juneau's resilience, and this time, the ripple effects could ...
Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...
After waters peaked at 16.65 feet, newly installed HESCO barriers and early alerts spared schools, homes and businesses from ...
The temporary levee the city installed along the Mendenhall River this year protected hundreds of homes nearby. But water ...
The department says it also plans to release the body-worn camera footage from the incident at the end of this month.