As stormy weather rolled in on Wednesday, Provincetown DPW workers spent the afternoon deploying new orange water-diversion barriers along parts of Commercial Street. With high tide expected to ...

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers stacked along the Mendenhall River largely prevented flooding of the nearby ...

Improvements and expansions are coming to the barrier system that helps protect Juneau from glacial outburst flooding, and they’ll be fully funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. USACE will also ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city of Juneau. But, flood barriers installed by the city managed to prevent ...

On a stormy day in December, a promising new storm-deployable barrier arrived in Provincetown’s East End — in pieces. Each segment was waist-high, shaped like the letter “L,” and made of bright red ...

A major flood control project on the Mill Creek is nearing completion, but the agency set to take responsibility for the infrastructure doesn’t have the money to operate it. The Millcreek Valley ...

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 ...

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 ...