As Juneau residents displaced by this weekend’s flooding figure out what’s next, some are being reunited with personal belongings they likely believed lost forever.
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Juneau Assembly calls meeting to declare local emergency after record flooding
Deputy City Manager Robert Barr says that about 20 homes — eight buildings altogether — have been condemned.
Alaska harvesters and scientists are concerned about the health of black seaweed
Harvesters are having to travel farther and farther to find the seaweed, which is an important traditional food source.
2 swimmers cross Frederick Sound for the first time in living memory
Andrew Simmonds, age 61, is the first person in living memory to try to swim across the sound. Last summer he got close, but he didn’t quite make it.
Juneau’s worst glacial outburst flood destroys homes and displaces residents
“We started seeing structural timber,” one resident said. “And then I was like, ‘Oh, my God. That’s from houses upstream.'”
Wildfires in the Interior, potential drought in Southeast as record heat drags into August
While Southwest and Southcentral Alaska experienced cool, wet conditions in July, Utqiaġvik had its hottest month on record and Fairbanks had its second hottest. And Juneau’s heat lagged only behind July of 2018 and 2019.