A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in ...

Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

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

New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...

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

Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.

Glacial lake outburst flooding is a flood that's produced by the quick, unexpected release of water from a glacial lake.

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

Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...

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.

A 'glacial outburst' – a burst of water from a glacial lake – threatened to engulf residents of Juneau, Alaska.