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Resident Todd Brainard cleans snow off of the roof of his home in North Perry, Ohio on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos)

Great Lakes region braces for more snow while cleaning up after lake-effect storms

Cleanup work is still taking place around parts of the Great Lakes region socked by lake-effect snowstorms that dropped several feet of snow over the weekend.
 
The fishing vessel Wind Walker fishes near Sitka, Alaska, March 29, 2022, during the Sitka Sound sac roe fishery. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)

The Coast Guard suspends its search for the crew of a capsized fishing boat in the Gulf of Alaska

 
Dwayne Bennett, mayor of Geneva-on-the-Lake, drives a heavy equipment to clear snow as more snow falls Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, in Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Already buried under snow, Great Lakes region expected to see more stormy weather this week

 
The fishing vessel Wind Walker fishes near Sitka, Alaska, March 29, 2022, during the Sitka Sound sac roe fishery. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)

US Coast Guard is searching for 5 people after a fishing boat reportedly capsized in seas off Alaska

 
In this undated image made from a video provided by Breakwater Studios shows Mary McGee during an interview. (Breakwater Studios via AP)

Female racing pioneer ‘Motorcycle Mary’ McGee dies a day before documentary on her is released

 

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Dog rescued from California fires is now on the run in an Alaska forest after slipping from her collar

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This image taken with a drone and provided by Richard Ross shows shows high water around homes and neighborhoods following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Richard Ross via AP)

An estimated 290 residences damaged by flooding from lake dammed by Alaska glacier, officials say

 
This image taken with a drone and provided by Richard Ross shows shows high water around homes and neighborhoods following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Richard Ross via AP)

Residents in Alaska capital clean up swamped homes after an ice dam burst and unleashed a flood

 
FILE - Cruise ships are shown near downtown Juneau on June 7, 2023, along the Gastineau Channel, in Alaska. Voters in Alaska's capital city could decide in October whether to ban large cruise ships on Saturdays starting next year. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

An Alaska tourist spot will vote whether to ban cruise ships on Saturdays to give locals a break

 
FILE - A group of people take in the views of the Mendenhall Glacier on June 8, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s

 
FILE - Cruise ships are docked on June 9, 2023, in downtown Juneau, Alaska. A new agreement between Alaska's capital city and major cruise lines seeks to cap the daily number of cruise ship passengers arriving in Juneau starting in 2026, but a critic of the cruise industry says the planned limits don't go far enough. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

A new agreement would limit cruise passengers in Alaska’s capital. A critic says it falls short

 
A moose crosses a residential street in the snow, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Turnagain, Alaska. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

It’s so cold and snowy in Alaska that fuel oil is thickening and roofs are collapsing

 
Dave Harris shovels snow near his home in Juneau, Alaska, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. The city on Wednesday closed the road that goes past his house to an area where people can access popular hiking trails due to avalanches but Harris said he feels safe where his house is located. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Residents of Alaska’s capital dig out after snowfall for January hits near-record level for the city

 
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters during a news conference at which he unveiled his budget proposals for the coming year on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. Dunleavy said the spending proposal includes a deficit of nearly $1 billion that he proposes using savings to cover. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Alaska governor’s budget plan includes roughly $3,400 checks for residents and deficit of nearly $1B

 
This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Public Safety shows boat operators patrolling the waters near a massive landslide that extends into the sea at mile 11 of the Zimovia Highway, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, in Wrangell, Alaska. Search and rescue operations have been ongoing since the incident was reported Nov. 20, 2023. Three people have died and searchers looked Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, for three others who remain missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaska fishing community on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (Alaska Department of Public Safety via AP)

Search continues for the missing after landslide leaves 3 dead in Alaska fishing community

 
In this photo provided by Elizabeth Wilkins, she is shown with her cat Leo on Aug. 3, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. Wilkins and her partner Tom Schwartz, were reunited with Leo 26 days after their home collapsed into the swollen Mendenhall River Aug. 5, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. (Elizabeth Wilkins via AP)

Alaska couple reunited with cat 26 days after home collapsed into river swollen by glacial outburst

 
Debris from a home that partially fell into the Mendenhall River sits on its banks in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday Aug. 6, 2023. The city of Juneau says the Mendenhall River flooded on Saturday because of a major release from Suicide Basin above Alaska's capital city, and at least two buildings were destroyed. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire via AP)

Bursting ice dam in Alaska highlights risks of glacial flooding around the globe

 
A home hangs over the edge of an eroded riverbank after part of the neighboring house fell into the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. The city of Juneau says the Mendenhall River flooded on Saturday because of a major release from Suicide Basin above Alaska's capital city, and at least two buildings were destroyed. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire via AP)

Glacial dam outburst in Alaska’s capital erodes riverbanks, destroys at least 2 buildings

 
The swollen Mendenhall River courses along a neighborhood in Juneau, Alaska, on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023, after a glacial dam burst earlier in the weekend caused flooding along the river and Mendenhall Lake. The city said at least two buildings were destroyed. (AP Photo/BeckyBohrer)

At least 2 buildings destroyed in flooding in Alaska’s capital from glacial lake water release

 
Passengers disembark from a cruise ship that has docked on June 12, 2023, in downtown Juneau, Alaska. As the Mendenhall Glacier continues to recede, tourists are flooding into Juneau. A record number of cruise ship passengers are expected this year in the city of about 30,000 people. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Crammed with tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier recedes

 
FILE - Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters during a news conference at the state Capitol, April 28, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska. Transgender girls would be barred from participating on high school girls' athletic teams in Alaska under a proposal being considered Wednesday, July 26, 2023, by the state board of education. Opponents of the proposal call it discriminatory and unconstitutional and say it likely will lead to litigation. Supporters, including Dunleavy, say it is needed to ensure fairness in girls' sports. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Alaska board delays action on proposal to bar transgender girls from girls’ high school sports teams

 
FILE - Chunks of ice float in Mendenhall Lake in front of the Mendenhall Glacier on April 29, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. An Alaska man inadvertently filmed his own drowning on the glacial lake with a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet, but authorities who recovered the camera have not yet found his body, officials said Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Alaska man inadvertently films his own drowning on a glacial lake with helmet GoPro, officials say

 
Map locates the Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska’s Western Arctic, which the Biden administration approved March 13.

Judge: Alaska oil project can proceed as lawsuits play out