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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 ...
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 ...
The flood reached a record-breaking crest of 16.65 feet at about 8 a.m. Wednesday. Water continues to seep into Valley ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities says emergency bridge repairs are currently underway, but it ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
“A glacial outburst has occurred at Suicide Basin. The basin is releasing and flooding is expected along Mendenhall Lake and ...
Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
After the City and Borough of Juneau issued an evacuation advisory Tuesday morning, some flood zone residents are heeding the ...
For three years in a row, Juneau has had unprecedented flooding in August from a melting glacier. This year, officials built a levee to protect the city. It seems to have helped, but it's temporary.