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City officials say the HESCO barriers sustained around $1 million in damage during the 2025 glacial outburst flood.
When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...
Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...
Six homes sustained damage considered major, according to early assessments that also found repairs to a damaged bridge will ...
Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Officials are exploring a buyout program that would pay willing residents of View Drive, unprotected by Mendenhall River ...
The NWS in Juneau issued a flood warning for parts of the area around the Mendenhall River. A "crest" is expected Wednesday ...
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...
Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital ...
The Mendenhall Glacier — a thinning, retreating glacier that is a major tourist attraction in southeast Alaska — acts as a ...