It’s been over a year since a landslide devastated the Wrangell community, killing six people. Last month, geologists ...

Unique bedrock formations, a thick layer of loose sediment, and a concentrated water drainage system flowing down from the ridgetop were three of the main ingredients that led to the ...

An eruption of Mount Churchill today similar to previous major plumes would bring much of the Northern Hemisphere to a ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska – A landslide along Alaska's southeastern ... Heavy rains on Nov. 20 in Wrangell, about 100 miles from Ketchikan, killed six people, including a family of five, and destroyed ...

Wrangell and Ketchikan are doing to use the landscape mapping for potential landslides. The Oct. 21 article is titled, “Scientists are mapping landslides in Alaska. Some homeowners don’t want ...

A November 2023 landslide in Wrangell. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of ...

Rescuers are desperately searching for any signs of two missing children and an adult thought to be trapped under mud and debris after a devastating landslide in southeastern Alaska, officials said.

Fatal landslides in Southeast Alaska over the past decade killed more than a dozen people. Six of those deaths happened during the landslide in Wrangell that devastated the small town and cut off ...

In August 2024, flooding brought on by heavy rains, high winds and tidal forces caught Western Alaska coastal communities off guard and drew comparisons to the impacts of Typhoon Merbok a little ...

“I am home,” said the senator, who attended elementary school in Wrangell when her father, former Alaska Gov. and Sen. Frank Murkowski, ran the bank in town in the 1960s. She went on to ...