Eagle News

Residents in the city of Eagle are finally getting some relief after a springtime flood that damaged homes and businesses.

The return of chinook salmon on the Yukon River isn't looking good, as predicted.

On the heels of a springtime flood that damaged homes and businesses, the city of Eagle is bracing for a tough tourist year.

VOLUNTEERS: 20 homes needed, some for people unable to build themselves. Published: June 14th, 2009 08:34 PM Last Modified: June 14th, 2009 10:04 PM Eagle residents who lost their homes last month in the worst Yukon River flood in recorded history are putting out a plea for volunteer labor.

Damage to homes, roads and airports from spring flooding in rural Alaska will likely tally more than $7.2 million in public funding, according to state and federal officials.

The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has launched a new website to provide timely and accurate information about operations to access the New Village of Eagle and to reopen Mission Road following the devastating Yukon River flooding and ice jam.

The Community Hall on St. George Island is Alaska's most endangered property. That's the determination of the Alaska Association for Historic Preservation.

AID: State, federal governments tabulate the costs of rebuilding in as many as 40 villages.

People in communities along the Yukon River devastated by flooding are asking people who want to donate to tailor items to their needs.

The Dawson flood of 1979 remembered. DAWSON CITY - Bill Bowie has been thinking a lot lately about the Dawson flood of 1979, those thoughts triggered by the devastation he's seen in photographs coming out of Eagle, Alaska, this month.

The Alaska Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster desk at the State Emergency Coordination has validated the need for dog food for the communities of Circle, Eagle, Stevens Village, and Tanana.

FUEL LEAKS, CONTAMINATION A PART OF FLOODING AFTERMATH : Officials say it could be months before they know roughly how many hundreds of gallons of fuel might have receded with floodwaters from communities along the Yukon River - and what, if any, lasting effects that might have.

National Weather Service officials say threats of flooding have fallen along most of the Yukon River.

Landowners in Eagle are eligible for federal funding to help remove debris from the flooding that occurred this month in the Yukon River community.

Operators of the Yukon Queen tour boat between Dawson City, Yukon, and Eagle, Alaska, are delaying the annual start of the summer tour season, as they help people in Eagle bounce back from a record spring flood.

About a fourth of the 250 residents of Tanana were evacuated after the city was inundated Tuesday by flood water from the Yukon River before it started to recede, emergency management officials said.

Cleanup and damage assessment continued Friday in Eagle after a devastating flood caused by ice jams from the Yukon River caused extensive damage throughout the community.

Efforts are under way in Eagle to assess the damage caused when ice jams on the Yukon River caused massive flooding in the community.

A blue and white vacuum hung 20 feet from the ground in a spruce as the trail turned to caked mud.

The winter of 2008-09 was brutal, even by Interior Alaska standards. Breakup is proving no kinder.