After one Midtown Anchorage homeless camp is dismantled, another forms nearby

And: Juneau glacier flooding leaves residents looking for long-term solutions ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( Today's sponsor: [Today's sponsor: Northrim Bank]( Good afternoon. It’s Monday, August 12. In today's newsletter: - Shortly after the city cleared a large homeless camp on Fairbanks Street last week, [another encampment settled]( in Midtown Anchorage, leading to outcry from business owners in the area. - Hundreds of residents of Juneau's Mendenhall Valley now face a difficult question: [How do you avoid devastating floods]( that could occur each summer for the foreseeable future? - Ads criticizing a relatively unknown Republican candidate for Alaska’s U.S. House seat [could change the dynamics of the competitive race]( after the primary later this month. A plateau rising from the flats of northern Alaska was for thousands of years a lookout for ancient Alaskans, science writer Ned Rozell explains [in his latest column](. Those people later vanished, perhaps moving on to populate the Americas. A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist is using what little they left behind to find out more about those hunters of long ago. Anchorage weather It's overcast with light rain showers today, and there's a high near 59 degrees. We'll see a mix of patchy fog and partly sunny skies for the next few days starting on Tuesday, and the forecast calls for more precipitation late this week. Daytime temperatures will hover in the mid-60s this week. Here’s what else is making headlines in Alaska today. — Megan Pacer, mpacer@adn.com [The city dismantled a Midtown Anchorage homeless camp. Almost immediately, another formed nearby. →]( Business owners say the new encampment along a busy stretch of East 33rd Avenue has brought a surge of problems and crime to the area. Homeless residents say they moved there because they had nowhere else to go. ADVERTISEMENT [Juneau glacier flooding leaves residents looking for long-term solutions →]( Local scientists say mitigation methods at Suicide Basin seem "infeasible," while possible solutions downstream could still be hugely costly. [Attacks on relatively unknown GOP candidate for Alaska’s U.S. House seat could shape primary results →]( Gerald Heikes of Palmer, who has reported no fundraising of his own, stands only to gain name recognition from the attack ads, which emphasize his staunch opposition to abortion access. [On a world record attempt, Anchorage cyclist Lael Wilcox makes hometown pit stop before the final stretch →]( This week she passed 12,000 miles in her attempt to become the fastest woman to circumnavigate the world on bicycle. [Alaska school districts got a one-time funding boost. It came too late for many teachers. →]( [District leaders and teachers say their colleagues are leaving because of uncertainty in what is usually a stable profession.]( (via Alaska Beacon) ADVERTISEMENT More from the ADN [McGrath woman killed in ATV crash →]( [Northern lights across Lower 48 steal the show during Perseid meteor shower →]( [Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, turned away from ERs despite federal law →]( [Everyone agrees there’s a homeless crisis in the US. Plans to address it vary among mayor candidates. →]( [Here are the best practices for trouble-free travel to the Lower 48 →]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Click here to unsubscribe and manage your email subscriptions.]( Anchorage Daily News, 300 W 31st Ave, Anchorage, AK 99503, United States