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

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 ...

The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...

These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...

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

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

Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...

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

Newly installed river barriers held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage in Alaska’s capital city ...

According to the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Juneau, the Mendenhall River crested at 16.65 feet – which now makes it the largest glacial lake outburst flooding event ever recorded.