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

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...

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

A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...

Because the flooding has been a growing concern, city officials have installed emergency flood barriers along several miles ...

In 2023, a glacier lake outburst at Mendenhall's Suicide Basin destroyed several structures along the Mendenhall River as the ...

These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...

Zaz Hollander is a veteran journalist based in the Mat-Su and is currently an ADN local news editor and reporter. She covers ...

The flood reached a record-breaking crest of 16.65 feet at about 8 a.m. Wednesday. Water continues to seep into Valley ...

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning and initial Mendenhall River flood forecast of around 16.6 feet. That record peak is expected Wednesday afternoon.