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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.
Klukwan researchers and emergency planners have been responding to the village’s landslide risk with efforts to develop an ...
While the Chilkat Valley is not unique in facing landslides, the combination of steep slopes, heavy rainfall, aging ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Those heading up to Alaska for a late spring cruise this week got a heaping dose of weather reality as an atmospheric river ...
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.
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, ...