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City officials say the HESCO barriers sustained around $1 million in damage during the 2025 glacial outburst flood.
Six homes sustained damage considered major, according to early assessments that also found repairs to a damaged bridge will ...
Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
A powerful surge of glacial meltwater is once again testing Juneau's resilience, and this time, the ripple effects could ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...
Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...