Team swims at 2026 Bellevue Club Premier Invitational among Pacific Northwest's best Glacier Swim Club (Photo courtesy GSC) By Klas Stolpe   Juneau Independent Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club competed at the 2026

Team fares well in final club swims in Anchorage Juneau's Glacier Swim Club gets psyched up during the By Klas Stolpe Juneau Independent Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club traveled to their final meet of the season I love hiking, trail running and open water swimming in Auke Lake. And it is really fun to be on the Glacier Swim Club. It is a good community. Tuesday, at Chapel by the Lake, Smith Hall.

comes the watching and waiting as water builds up in Suicide Basin with the anniversary of those record floods We're all in this together," said Debbie Penrose-Fischer during a monthly meeting of the group Juneau Flood Comprehensive flood data and other preparatory information are available at the Juneau Glacial Flood But some residents in the flood area — and sympathetic elected officials — have complained the barriers About a dozen people participate in a Juneau Flood Solution Advocates meeting meeting Thursday, June

"This story is 100% FAKE NEWS," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt  wrote on X , adding the But Trump couldn’t make problems with Columbia’s democracy sound so much like our own without the help

Swim clubs and top swimmers from across the state attending In this file photo from last season Glacier (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Independent) By Klas Stolpe Juneau Independent Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club is hosting Team, Clint Kopp, 18, 54.32; 200 free - Chugiak Aquatics Club, Lelaina Trembath, 16, 1:53.77 / CAC, Blake

Army Corps of Engineers to plan the next phase of flood-control work along the Mendenhall River.

After four straight years of damaging Mendenhall glacial outburst floods, we're weighing long-term solutions Juneau didn't cause the flooding, and cutting our local emissions won't stop the glacier from melting The scale of the flood response offers a chance to fix that. My proposal: commit 5% of the amount spent on Mendenhall flood protection to implementing the climate money from flood protection.

A firefighter monitors flames caused by the Hughes Fire along Castaic Lake in Castaic, Calif., Jan. 22 record El Nino that began in 1997 and helped trigger billions of dollars in damage from heat waves, floods NOAA's announcement said there's a 63% chance that the El Nino will get so intense this late fall and western South America — where the first El Ninos were noticed decades ago — often get heavy rain and floods Northeastern Africa is likely going to get weather whiplash from intense drought to dangerously heavy

GSC floods the pool with wins and fun in meet honoring one of their own Glacier Swim Club's Cora Soboleff I really like getting to see them again and just compete with them. She died on June 25, 2012, at age 16 in a jet ski accident while tubing on Auke Lake. Added Fisher, “It is like representing, it feels so good.” I like to do those.

congressional delegation for funding and coordination on the city’s long-term solution to recurring flood

Flood waters left debris including vehicles and equipment scattered in Louise Hays Park on July 5, 2025 official running the Federal Emergency Management Agency testified Wednesday the response to flash flooding His conclusions about the catastrophic flooding, which had a death toll  of 135 and included extensive saying it’s not possible for FEMA to pre-position resources for all flood warnings. flood warning it gets because they would pre-position literally 365 days a year,” Perry said.

That’s left the banks of the Kugkaktlik River unstable — and more likely to collapse when floods hit, Underserved communities are often the most vulnerable to climate impacts such as heat waves and flooding That’s left the banks of the Kugkaktlik River unstable — and more likely to collapse when floods hit, Underserved communities are often the most vulnerable to climate impacts such as heat waves and flooding “We feel like we’re at ground zero again,” Roberts said.