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A reduced payment of about $6,300, instead of the originally proposed $8,000, by property owners in a zone at risk of glacial outburst flooding to pay for protective barriers was approved Monday night ...

Peter Bangs says he’s already spent $100,000 of his own money protecting his home from the Mendenhall River and this year’s record flooding wasn’t high enough to reach his property, so he’s not ...

MILTON, Fla. -- The june first start of hurricane season is quickly approaching.State leaders are advocating for flood ...

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers stacked along the Mendenhall River largely prevented flooding of the nearby ...

The Juneau Assembly has approved $2 million in funding to construct a semi-permanent levee along Mendenhall River in order to prepare for future glacial outburst floods. But at a meeting Monday night, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — During the week of Aug. 11, 2025, the Mendenhall Glacier released its yearly glacier lake outburst flood, also known as a jökulhlaup — pronounced yah-cuh-laup. In preparation for ...

A $50-million project designed to protect Sunnyside from the threat of overland flooding is functionally complete, just in time for this year’s spring flood season.

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The city of Annapolis deployed new flood barriers near City Dock around midday Tuesday to combat a storm that brought high winds and rising floodwaters. City workers installed the flood mitigation ...