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.

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

Taylor Swift's appearance on the Kelce brothers' "New Heights" podcast gave the 92 percenters a trove of intimate emotional ...

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

Mendenhall River runs through Juneau, Alaska. The river rose to a record level, but temporary barriers largely kept major ...

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.

The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial lake outburst sent debris-filled water rushing down the Mendenhall ...