From 2015 to this summer, four deadly landslides struck some of the largest towns in the sparsely populated region — Sitka, Haines, Wrangell and then Ketchikan, in August — killing a dozen ...

James and Bill Montivér had just finished boxing up their home on a steep road in Ketchikan, a fishing community turned cruise ship stop in southeast Alaska, when they heard a screech like a jet ...

From 2015 to this summer, four deadly landslides struck some of the largest towns in the sparsely populated region — Sitka, Haines, Wrangell and then Ketchikan, in August — killing a dozen ...

Ketchikan High School’s production of the Broadway play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” opens Friday. After a summer punctuated by school funding cuts and a fatal landslide, it’s a ...

Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Alaska and ordered Federal assistance to supplement ...

Haines lost two people in 2020, Wrangell six people in 2023, and Ketchikan lost one person just this last summer. The rate of landslides and their resulting fatalities are increasing not only in ...

Members of the Alaska Tribal Resilience Learning Network are visiting Prince of Wales Island this week to lead community discussions on landslides, emergency response and preparedness, and "Climate ...

Danielle Lindoff and husband Kamal were prepared yet hopeful. The jökulhlaups — an Icelandic word for glacial lake outburst ...

including an increased risk of flooding and intense rainfall — as seen during an atmospheric river that contributed to the landslides in Ketchikan. According to NASA, more than 100 years of ...

She expressed remorse for the people impacted by the deadly landslide in Ketchikan and flooding in Juneau, and her support for the recent apology from the U.S. Navy over the bombardment of the ...