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 ...

Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital ...

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

Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

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

A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...

Because the flooding has been a growing concern, city officials have installed emergency flood barriers along several miles ...

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

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town. Since 2011, ...