Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...

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

Because the flooding has been a growing concern, city officials have installed emergency flood barriers along several miles ...

Recent flooding events around the country this summer have sparked concerns for communities in and near flood zones.

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...

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

Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream ...

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.

Suicide Basin is a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier above Juneau. Since 2011, the NWS said Suicide Basin has released ...