This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...

Residents in some parts of Juneau evacuated ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin ...

Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.

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

Residents in the city's flood zone have been urged to leave the area as water has started escaping the ice dam.

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 ...

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

A wave of water that gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake and sent a river surging to a new record level is causing flooding ...

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

He heard the emergency response and returned home to learn that some riverfront residences had been swept away. “That was my first big experience with the Mendenhall Glacier flood events,” Fagan says.