Alaska State Troopers said in a statement that three homes were in the direct path of the disaster around 8:50 p.m. local time Monday near Wrangell, a fishing community with just over 2,000 ...

The town of Wrangell, with a population of about 2,100, is on Wrangell Island in the heart of the Tongass National Forest. At 16.7 million acres, the forest is roughly the same size as West Virginia.

The slide – estimated to be about 137m wide – occurred during a significant rain and windstorm near Wrangell, an island community of 2,000 residents some 250km south of Juneau. open image in ...

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, where they could settle on a few acres and ...