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

Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...

The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...

Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital ...

A 'glacial outburst' – a burst of water from a glacial lake – threatened to engulf residents of Juneau, Alaska.

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

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.

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

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...

A video provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shows flooding in Juneau after a glacial ...

Glacial lake outburst flooding is a flood that's produced by the quick, unexpected release of water from a glacial lake.