Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 9—JUNEAU — Alaska's capital city is and waiting and watching as residents anticipate the start of the annual glacial lake ...

A Pineapple Express could bring heavy rain, flooding and snow to the Southwest and Southern California over Halloween weekend. A truce, brokered by first lady Melania Trump, went into effect at 3 a.m.

Barrier installations for the Mendenhall Glacial Outburst Flood project is 45% complete as of April 29, the Alaska District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says. Crews have been working on Phase 2 ...

65 feet, breaking records set just the year before when a sudden glacial lake outburst flood surged from Suicide Basin. The outburst began at Suicide Basin, a glacial lake attached to the Mendenhall ...

City and federal leaders have settled on a long-term solution to mitigate glacial lake outburst floods: a lake tap. The lake tap would be a tunnel drilled through Bullard Mountain, allowing water to ...

A torrent of icy water poured into the basement of Diane and John Lohrey’s home in Juneau, Alaska, in the early morning of Aug. 6, 2024. It entered with such force that it floated the piano across the ...

City and federal contractors originally planned to build the flood wall along the Mendenhall River much higher this summer, after it just barely protected hundreds of homes from Juneau’s largest ...

Storms, earthquakes and coastal erosion puts a Halloween ranking in context ...

An online forecasting tool translates complex glacier data into information that gives residents and officials more time to prepare and respond. Two years ago, John Lowrey woke to the roar of water ...

Glacial floodwaters on the Mendenhall River have put thousands of homes at risk in Juneau, Alaska. Emergency managers have urged people living near the river to evacuate as a glacial lake outburst ...

The glacier outburst flood in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley has crested and the waters are receding, according to the National Weather Service office in Juneau. The Mendenhall River crested at a height ...