Sam Nolan News Today

Veteran politician and trade union activist Sam Nolan, who has died at the age of 93, was a prominent and active figure on the Irish left from the 1940s onward, and served for many years as secretary of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions.

Mendenhall Glacier issues, hillside areas, unhappiness with local leaders head the headlines.

Elizabeth Wilkins and Tom Schwartz were holding onto hope that if any animal would survive the house falling into the Mendenhall River on August 5, it would be resilient, big-eyed Leo.

Sam Nolan(JUNEAU, Alaska) -- The glacier lake outburst that sent an unprecedented amount of water rushing towards Alaskas capital, destroying homes, would not have happened without climate change, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. An outburst flood from a meltwater lake on the Mendenhall Glacier, located about 12 miles north of Juneau, Alaska, sent record amounts of water into Mendenhall Lake and down the Mendenhall River between Aug. 4 and Aug. 6, according to N...

Elizabeth Wilkins and her partner Tom Schwartz were traveling in Oregon when the raging Mendenhall River hit their rental home in Juneau on Saturday, sending their cat Leo to an uncertain fate.

By Lewis Pennock for Dailymail.Com

A house collapse was caught on camera amid Mendenhall Glacier flooding in Juneau, Alaska.

A multi-story house has been caught on camera tipping into record floodwaters discharged from a nearby glacier.

Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images(JUNEAU, Alaska) -- City officials in Juneau, Alaska, have issued an emergency declaration as a glacier lake outburst flood wreaks havoc near the city, where structures have been destroyed. The flooding is due to a break on Suicide Basin, a side basin on the Mendenhall Glacier, located about 12 miles north of Alaskas state capital. A glacial lake outburst flood occurs when a dam containing a glacial lake breaks. The flooding has destroyed sever...

At least two homes in Juneau, Alaska, have been devoured by the flooding Mendenhall River after a glacial collapse triggered a state of emergency at the capital.