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Residents in Alaska have been warned to evacuate as snowmelt from the Mendenhall Glacier, which is about 12 miles from Juneau ...
“What a difference a year makes,” she said. “There’s a lot of relief just driving around and instead of people depressed, sad … you saw people mowing their lawns, walking their dogs, kids playing, ...
Now we know just how useless Trump’s Alaska summit really was ... to everyone but Vladimir Putin - NEWS ANALYSIS: A nebulous ...
This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...
Governor Dunleavy issues a State Disaster Declaration for Juneau due to a potential catastrophic flood from Suicide Basin.
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
Officials have advised that the flood threat from Suicide Basin has ended and waters have receded. Evacuated areas are now ...
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 ...
Above Juneau sits the so-called Suicide Basin. Evacuations underway as experts predict record-breaking floodwaters from ...
Suicide Basin is seen on July 31, 2025, with rising meltwater and ice chunks. The image, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, was among the real-time information provided by a new online dashboard ...
Sacramento County now threatens the city’s heralded 50-year plan to balance growth and preservation in Natomas with a project too close to the river, writes columnist Tom Philp.