The National Weather Service has announced a special weather statement declaring that Suicide Basin in Juneau has reached capacity and is showing signs of over-topping. They note that in the past, it ...

Update Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.: The flood threat from Suicide Basin has ended, officials said Wednesday afternoon, and waters have receded. Evacuated areas are now open to residents only. Back Loop ...

Floodwaters from a glacial outburst poured through Juneau, Alaska, Wednesday, but the state’s capital seemed to have dodged catastrophic flooding that many officials feared. The Suicide Basin, ...

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. Since 2011, ...

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 river is in major flood stage at 16.17 feet and rising, the agency ...

Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a glacier lake outburst flood.” Emergency management and National Weather Service ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

As heavy rains and snowmelt converge. Residents in Alaska have been warned to evacuate as snowmelt from the Mendenhall Glacier, which is about 12 miles from Juneau and is a popular tourist attraction, ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --Officials in Alaska advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to cause major flooding. The city and borough of Juneau announced ...

The basin’s second release has come to an end, the National Weather Service says. Mendenhall Lake observed a crest of 9.6 feet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, and lake and river levels have been falling ...