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

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

Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.

City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...

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

The NWS in Juneau issued a flood warning for parts of the area around the Mendenhall River. A "crest" is expected Wednesday ...

Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and ...

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

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

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

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