Six homes sustained damage considered major, according to early assessments that also found repairs to a damaged bridge will ...

The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...

Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...

Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...

University of Alaska Southeast environmental science professor Eran Hood recalled that it was a sunny summer day in 2011 when an unexpected and potentially perilous situation began to unfold. The ...

The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...

“A glacial outburst has occurred at Suicide Basin. The basin is releasing and flooding is expected along Mendenhall Lake and ...

Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

Current reports from the National Weather Service estimate the basin will be full Monday, but a release can happen at any ...

The camera is placed at the basin entrance and faces northeast, into the basin. (Photo from National Weather Service Juneau) Suicide Basin is a side basin above the face of the Mendenhall Glacier.

Suicide Basin, near Juneau, Alaska National Weather Service "Since 2011," the service says, "Suicide Basin has released glacier lake outburst floods that cause inundation along Mendenhall Lake and ...