From 2015 to this summer, four deadly landslides struck some of the largest towns in the sparsely populated region — Sitka, Haines, Wrangell and then Ketchikan, in August — killing a dozen ...

“Pretty much anywhere in Southeast Alaska that has step hillsides associated with it is subject to a potential landslide,” said Ron Heintz, senior researcher at Sitka Sound Science Center (SSSC ...

Heavy rains set loose more than 40 landslides in the Sitka area. One, on Sitka's Harbor Mountain, stretched 1,200 feet across, swallowing a home under construction and killing a city building ...

Beyond a human toll, landslides have damaged millions of dollars in homes and infrastructure across the state. Scientists say climate change is expected to fuel the extreme rainfall events and storms ...

Torrential rains were blamed for landslides that killed two people in Haines in 2020 and three people in Sitka in 2015. “In my 65 years in Ketchikan, I have never seen a slide of this magnitude ...

“Pretty much anywhere in southeast Alaska that has steep hillsides associated with it is subject to a potential landslide,” said Ron Heintz, senior researcher at the Sitka Sound Science ...

Researchers have blamed atmospheric rivers for landslides in southeast Alaska that killed three people in Sitka in 2015 and two in Haines in 2020. After the Wrangell landslide, the state set up a ...