Officials express concerns about flooding in western Alaska
Officials express concerns about flooding in western Alaska April 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — A heavy winter snowpack along the Kuskokwim River could make flooding likely this year in western Alaska, a federal weather official said. “I’m especially concerned about the lower villages” along the Johnson River, a tributary of the Kuskokwim, National Weather Service Hydrologist Celine Van Breukelen said. Her comments came Monday as more than 50 federal, state and local officials and others took part in a teleconference discussing breakup, the term for spring snow a...