Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.

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

New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...

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

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

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

A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacier is threatening significant, potentially record-breaking flooding in Juneau ...

KTOO’s Alix Soliman is part of the team reporting on this year’s glacial outburst flood. She spoke to Alaska Public Media's ...

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

Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.

City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...