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 ...

Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

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 ...

Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.

Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital ...

The Mendenhall River near Alaska’s capital of Juneau crested at a record level on Wednesday morning after a glacial outburst sent water filled with debris rushing downstream and into communities, ...