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

The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Don’t wait, Evacuate TONIGHT.” Those five ominous words flashed across Juneau’s official warnings this week, indicating what ...

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

Evacuations are underway in parts of Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial outburst sent water rushing down the Mendenhall River into areas in the region, which is expected to cause major ...

Above Juneau sits the so-called Suicide Basin. Formerly, the Suicide Glacier filled the Suicide Basin, but rising global ...