Over the past decade, landslides have cost Southeast Alaska communities in both death and destruction — 11 deaths and tens of millions of dollars in property and infrastructure damage.

Heavy rains and flooding in Southeast Alaska triggered a series of small landslides in Ketchikan on Wednesday that blocked ...

Members of the Haines Planning Commission examine new maps that illustrate landslide risk in the area. The maps are meant to inform future development and planning decisions. If you drive north on ...

AP In December 2020, torrential rains prompted a landslide in another southeast Alaska city, claiming two lives. The 200-yard-wide slide slammed into a neighborhood in the community of Haines ...

A landslide in the city of Ketchikan in extreme southeast Alaska has killed at least one person and injured at least three, local officials said. It also prompted evacuation orders, damaged ...

By Austyn Gaffney Photographs by Christopher Miller Austyn Gaffney traveled to southeast Alaska to talk to residents, officials and scientists dealing with landslide risks. James and Bill ...

Scientists said that intensifying rainfall, driven by climate change, could increase the risk of landslides in the area of Southeast Alaska that includes Ketchikan. “There’s no single factor ...

At least one person was killed and three others were injured when a landslide swept through a hillside and crashed into homes in Ketchikan, Alaska, prompting mandatory evacuations in the area.

killing one person and injuring three in the latest such disaster to strike mountainous southeast Alaska. The landslide Sunday afternoon prompted a mandatory evacuation of nearby homes in the city ...

But until about a decade ago, they were rarely known to rip apart homes, and they were not commonly claiming lives in southeast Alaska. From 2015 to this summer, four deadly landslides struck some ...

Ketchikan is surrounded by the Tongass National Forest, a temperate, mountainous rainforest that encompasses much of southeast Alaska, where landslides are a common risk. Last November, ...