FILE - This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Public Safety shows the landslide that occurred the previous evening near Wrangell, Alaska, on Nov. 21, 2023. Authorities have recovered the body ...
Future assessments of U.S. landslide hazards could include the study of risks posed by atmospheric rivers, which caused ...
The Wrangell landslide happened in an instant. Somewhere high on a hillside above Zimovia Highway, the slope started moving. In a matter of seconds, a river of mud fanned out and ran for nearly 4,000 ...
Mason Vallarma is the interim manager of the City and Borough of Wrangell. The deadly Nov. 20, 2023 landslide happened on his first day on the job. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) The lethal ...
Wrangell St Elias is the largest and one of the most remote National Parks in America. It’s so large that you can fit six Yellowstone National Parks inside this one incredible park! The big difference ...
Three people — Mara Heller, 16, Beth Heller, 36, and Timothy Heller, 44 — were found dead following the slide, according to Alaska State Police City and Borough of Wrangell An 11-year-old girl has ...
WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Christina Florschutz was dressing after stepping out of the shower of her upstairs bathroom when she heard “a horrible noise, a very loud noise.” Florschutz, who had heard both ...
Virgina Oliver set the reflective tone for the community’s landslide remembrance by singing the first verse of “Silent Night” in Tlingit, and then inviting people to sing it together in English. The ...
A Wrangell road blocked by a massive, deadly landslide last wee k was reopened briefly Tuesday to allow stranded residents to return home. Four people died in the slide that buried three homes the ...
WRANGELL — Zimovia Highway snakes along the west coast of Wrangell Island for 14 miles, with steep mountain slopes on one side and the ocean on the other. Many of the houses far out the road sit on ...