A tunnel through Bullard Mountain on the east side of the glacier would steadily drain Suicide Basin so it won’t fill to the ...

KTOO spoke with Juneau fire chief Rich Etheridge about a recent incident of someone falling through the ice, what to do if it ...

A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in parts of Juneau, seeping through flood barriers and flowing into a few ...

Every year for about a decade, the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, has flooded from meltwater buildup on a nearby glacier. Those floods were minor until 2023, when a couple of dozen homes in ...

A floatplane taxis near docked cruise ships as it prepares to take off on July 6, 2023, in the Gastineau Channel, along the downtown waterfront in Juneau, Alaska. As the Mendenhall Glacier continues ...

Aug. 11—JUNEAU — Floodwaters from the Mendenhall River rushed under Sam and Amanda Hatch's home last August at then record-levels. After the water receded, their house sank several inches into the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Someone in Juneau captured Saturday’s magnitude 7.0 quake near Yakutat on camera. Juneau is more ...

The torrent of frigid meltwater that burst from an Alaskan glacier Tuesday and flooded at least 100 homes, swamped cars and forced residents to wade to safety has become a summertime scourge for the ...

A January visit to Alaska – one featuring ice fishing, dog mushing and chasing the Northern Lights 70 miles above the Arctic Circle – only whetted my appetite for another slice. In particular, I ...

Twelve inches of fresh powder had just fallen at Eaglecrest Ski Area in Juneau, Alaska, when I arrived for my first day of skiing last February. Snow packed the slumping branches of towering pines and ...

The Taku Glacier is shrinking. It was the last, remaining advancing glacier flowing out of the Juneau Icefield. A soon-to-be-published research paper will show how climate change is responsible for ...

JUNEAU — The massive Taku Glacier has grown for nearly 130 years, extending deep into fjords and its namesake river southeast of the Alaska capital. Now, measurements indicate the Taku has ended its ...