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A warm winter storm is descending on the Tetons, with potential to drop over a foot of snow in the mountains, and rain at ...

By any measure, Americans are flooding into avalanche country at a staggering rate. Some estimates suggest a hundred times ...

The Colorado Transportation Commission has voted to authorize $2 million to replace the avalanche mitigation systems at Loveland Pass on U.S. Highway 6. The avalanche mitigation systems produced by ...

A third avalanche death within a week has been reported in Utah after a snowmobiler was found buried in the Snake Creek area ...

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities plans to trigger a controlled avalanche over Thane Road around noon Jan. 1, in an effort to reduce avalanche hazard above the roadway. The ...

Fortunately, Lookout Pass does not have any inbounds terrain that is susceptible to avalanche,” Sawyer said. “Yes, there is ...

(FOX40.COM) — Aerial surveys are underway at the site of the fatal Castle Peak avalanche as first responders attempt to recover the remains of disaster’s the nine victims. The Nevada County Sheriff’s ...

California's worker safety regulator found Mammoth Mountain at fault in the death of a ski patroller last season in an avalanche, determining the resort "failed" to provide necess ...

Over the weekend, the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center (IPAC) issued a backcountry avalanche watch for the Bitterroot ...

Rescue crews have recovered the bodies of all nine Tahoe backcountry skiers that were killed in what authorities have called ...