GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Grand Rapids manufacturer is pitching emergency crews a faster, less labor-intensive alternative to ...

Flood Risk America (FRA), a leading U.S. manufacturer of engineered flood protection systems, announced the expansion of its ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. University of Iowa officials are making plans to remove flood protection barriers on campus and reopen ...

Water continues to rise along the Mendenhall River during Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood on Monday, August 5, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) In a special Assembly meeting Thursday, the ...

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 ...

Under blue skies and sunshine, heavy metal flood barriers between about 4 and 6 feet tall were set up across Boston on Friday. Boston’s flood preparedness demonstration, which doubled as a training ...

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 ...

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Civil Engineering and Development Department introduces new guidelines for communities, property managers and businesses near ...