A snow scientist says a snow drought likely contributed to this week’s deadly avalanche in the Sierra Nevada, where eight ...

An avalanche during a storm in the Sierra Nevada killed at least eight skiers on a guided backcountry excursion.

Recovering from a 400-yard-long “soft slab” avalanche, the survivors would have had mere minutes to try to locate the others who had been buried, then frantically try to dig them out.

More avalanche warnings were issued on Tuesday morning across the region, including in the greater Lake Tahoe area. Officials warned that rapidly accumulating snow, weak layers within the existing ...

A blast of mountain snow and flooding rain is falling over California, the last of a string of storms that brought ...

An avalanche near Castle Peak outside Truckee buried 10 skiers and left six survivors stranded in whiteout conditions as 46 ...

The Nevada Department of Transportation used an avalanche control system on the Mt. Rose Highway summit to produce the slide.

More than two feet of snow is forecast for Colorado’s highest peaks by 5 a.m. Thursday, and the storm is expected to continue ...

One person was killed in an avalanche in the Wasatch backcountry on Wednesday, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.

We use a technique called photoelasticity and create thin avalanches to reveal what’s going on inside the avalanche. We track ...

Northern California faces a winter storm expected to bring significant traffic impacts, feet of snow, strong winds and more.