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The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream ...
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 ...
KTOO’s Alix Soliman is part of the team reporting on this year’s glacial outburst flood. She spoke to Alaska Public Media's ...
Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...
Current reports from the National Weather Service estimate the basin will be full Monday, but a release can happen at any ...