The measure, Senate Bill 11, would set up an Alaska Flood Authority and an Alaska flood insurance fund to supplant the Federal Emergency Management Agency’ s National Flood Insurance Program. The FEMA ...

Alaska is experiencing the real effects of the changing climate, from increasing floods to challenges in its fisheries, as rising temperatures continue to reshape the region. A new report from the ...

Haines is not the only community interested in mapping the risk. Similar projects have been completed or are underway in more ...

“However, there is a lot of variability so there is not a trend in the sense of a year over year increase in flood volume,” he said by email. Juneau is not the only Alaska site susceptible to ...

“Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban ... No one was injured in the crash, according to the Alaska State Troopers and the 11th Airborne Division. The vehicle was blocking the roadway ...

“Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban ... The rain is part of a warm winter cycle for Alaska, while swaths of the Lower 48 freeze. Even New Orleans has gotten more snow than Anchorage ...

Last Thursday morning, Chugach Electric Association, Hilcorp, and Marathon announced the sale of the LNG export dock to ...

Human-fueled climate change is making natural disasters like floods and landslides in Alaska more common and destructive. While property owners can purchase federal flood insurance, they might be ...

Back at home, researchers are trying to learn more about how and why a glacier in Juneau causes repeated flooding. Your Alaska Link shares how this study could impact people ...

Jan. 26—It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it's bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later ...