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A map shows areas of downtown Juneau considered at severe (red) and moderate (blue) risk of avalanches. The Juneau Assembly is scheduled on Monday to give initial consideration to an ordinance regulating development in such areas. (City and Borough of Juneau)

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Assembly to consider new hazard zone proposal to regulate avalanche areas, notify landslide risks

Warming shelter, off-road vehicle park, Suicide Basin monitoring also on agenda for Monday’s meeting.

An American Red Cross worker (in orange) advises people evacuating belongings from a house on Nelson Street following a small landslide Saturday evening. City officials ordered the evacuation of homes near the slide, and issued a notice asking people to stay away from the landslide area and for people in high-slope areas to be aware of landslide risks due to heavy rain. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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‘Small’ landslide occurs downtown; one home impacted, no injuries reported

Officials evacuate nearby homes, caution residents in high-slope areas.

A landslide occurs just outside the downtown area of Seward, Alaska, May 7, 2022. There were no reported injuries in the landslide, which the city estimates could take up to two weeks to clear. (Josh Gray via AP)

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Landslide near Seward cuts off road access to residents, tourists

The slide measured 200 feet long by 300 feet wide and could take up to two weeks to…

Clint Helander of Advanced Blasting Services clears remaining material from a cliffside near the University of Alaska Southeast student recreation center that had a substantial rockslide in February. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire)

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UAS cleans up February rockfall

Contractors cleared loose material from the cliffside near the rec center.

Bretwood “Hig” Higman, executive director of Ground Truth Trekking, talks Thursday at a news conference outside Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School about the risk of an eventual landslide in the Lemon Creek area. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

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Group investigates possibility of landslides in Lemon Creek area

There’s not cause for immediate concern, just watchfulness and evaluation, officials say.

Heritage Coffee Roasting Company is one of several Juneau businesses helping to prepare hundreds of meals for Haines residents and emergency relief workers following landslides that destroyed many homes and killed two. (Courtesy Photo / Kirk Stagg)

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Juneau organizations serve up help for Haines

Hundreds of meals a day go north to help feed Haines.

Organizations are withdrawing searchers from landslide-stricken Haines after the Alaska State Troopers called off active search and rescue operations due to hazardous conditions with the terrain and bad weather conditions in the search area. (U.S. Coast Guard photo / Lt. Erick Oredson)

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State calls off active search and rescue operations in Haines

Many organizations are withdrawing their searchers but continuing their support of recovery work.

This photo hows damage from heavy rains and a mudslide 600 feet wide in Haines, Alaska, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Authorities say six people are unaccounted for, and four homes were destroyed in the slide, with the search resuming Thursday morning for survivors. (Matt Boron/Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)

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6 missing after landslide hits Haines neighborhood

It was one of several reported landslides after a period of intense rain.

Hoonah Volunteer Fire Department firefighters battle a blaze at cabins in Hoonah on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. (Courtesy Photo | Hoonah Volunteer Fire Department)

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Gas explosion, boulder cause scares in Hoonah

It was a busy weekend for authorities.

A landslide blocks Sitka’s Halibut Point Road on Monday. No one was injured in the slide, the city’s worst in two years, and one home suffered superficial damage. ^ Roberta White | Sitka Fire Department

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Boats defeat landslide

No one was injured and no homes were significantly damaged in a major landslide Monday in Sitka. The…