Sen. Lisa Murkowski visits Wrangell on Wed. Dec. 20, 2023, one month after its deadly landslide. From left: Police Chief Tom Radke, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Mayor Patty Gilbert and Amber Al Haddad.

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 ...

Peter Boyd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Juneau, Alaska, said that in the six hours before the landslide, a total of 1.13 inches of rain fell at the nearby Wrangell Airport.