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Although city officials expect a Mendenhall River levee to hold back glacial outburst floodwaters as soon as early August, ...
Juneau braces for potential flooding with sandbag events, El Capitan Campground opens, Pioneer Park Train breaks down, and ...
The agency as of November had OK’d more than $2.6M for Juneau flood victims. ... Alaska was scheduled to receive more than $50 million between 2022-2026 for the program, ...
Although city officials say they expect the temporary levee to hold back glacial outburst floodwaters, they don’t want people to test it with their lives. Residents learned about FEMA’s National Flood ...
Anyone who lives “within the predicted 18-foot flood inundation area” can stop by and fill up to 75 sandbags, the CBJ wrote ...
A drone image shows widespread flooding in the Mendenhall Valley in Juneau on Aug. 6, 2024. The flood was from an outburst at Suicide Basin, part of the Mendenhall Glacier complex.
On top of the flooding, Alaska's fisheries are in crisis. ... The good news is Alaska isn't sitting back. In Juneau, leaders are working on a $100 million plan to prevent future flooding.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Residents on Alaska’s vast and sparsely populated western coast braced Friday for a powerful storm that forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history ...
Stedman said the Alaska-specific flood insurance policy would be a cheaper alternative to the federal program because it would be tailored to insure just the state’s floods, not the nation’s.
The giant earthquake was recorded at 12:37 p.m. local time, southeast of Sand Point, a community located on Popof Island in ...