Installation of HESCO barriers intended to protect hundreds of Mendenhall Valley homes from glacial outburst floods began Monday on Killewich Drive, with the first phase of the semipermanent levee ...

It’s not quite an election, but if most property owners formally object to paying about $6,300 apiece to install military-grade flood barriers in an area of the Mendenhall Valley vulnerable to glacial ...

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 ...

Phase one raises part of The Battery waterfront and advances flood protection for residents, jobs and businesses.

U.S. Flood Control director of operations Kyle Roussel (center) explains how to properly fill Tiger Dam flood barriers to Dennis Denault (left) and Trent Marlow (right). The operations team at Naples ...