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

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The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska’s capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.

Mendenhall River runs through Juneau, Alaska. The river rose to a record level, but temporary barriers largely kept major ...

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

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

Residents in some parts of Juneau evacuated ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started ...

New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska's capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage after an ice dam at the nearby Mendenhall Glacier ...