The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will fund repairs and extensions to Juneau’s HESCO barriers at no cost, enhancing protection ...

The Juneau Access Road, at one point declared dead in 2017, is alive and back on the map. Proposals “to conduct a feasibility study on improving transportation access along the west side of Lynn Canal ...

Improvements and expansions are coming to the barrier system that helps protect Juneau from glacial outburst flooding, and ...

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 ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city of Juneau. But, flood barriers installed by the city managed to prevent ...

Waters have receded, ending the flood threat after Alaska's capital city faced record floodwaters Wednesday stemming from a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, which released an "outburst flood" ...

The Totem Pole Trail in downtown Juneau added a new pole on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, bringing the Sealaska Heritage Institute ...

Update, 2:30 p.m. Monday: City and tribal officials say they will begin hanging informational door flyers in Mendenhall Valley neighborhoods in the flood zone and launch a flood information hotline ...

Emergency barriers installed through the Alaska capital city of Juneau appear to have successfully funneled floodwaters away from neighborhoods during a "glacial outburst" supercharged by climate ...