I was asked by a friend to volunteer at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center to help keep the doors open and the outdoors ...

An independent federal board on Wednesday ordered the temporary reinstatement of nearly 6,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Most of the staff at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center were fired earlier this month, leaving city tourism leaders worried that one of Juneau’s most popular visitor destinations may reduce ...

Mendenhall Glacier welcomes more than 400,000 visitors each year, and it's easy to see why: aside from its stunning arctic beauty, the glacier is only 12 miles outside Juneau and it's the only ...

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so it will just be you and a select few paddling along Mendenhall Lake, getting up close and personal with the glacier. Stretching from Taku Inlet to Skagway, the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield ...

A person takes a photo at the face of the Mendenhall Glacier on Sunday. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire) Capital City Fire/Rescue Chief Rich Etheridge said he would strongly advise against anyone ...

Nearly a dozen refugees were spotted on a boat, in distress, by a cruise ship captain between Cuba and Mexico, according to VACAYA, the vacation company that chartered the Royal Caribbean Ship. Former ...

The average residential property assessments rose by less than 1%. But many homes near the riverfront are seeing a decline in ...

Flood barriers meant to protect Mendenhall Valley homes from glacial outburst floods are on their way to Juneau. This week, ...

In Juneau, tourism representatives say virtually all the employees at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, part of the Tongass National Forest, have been terminated. That’s raising questions ...