Recovering from a 400-yard-long “soft slab” avalanche, the survivors would have had mere minutes to try to locate the others ...

A torrent of snow slammed Lake Tahoe Tuesday night, making an already-hazardous rescue of the nine missing skiers harder.

Another winter storm is expected to hit with 36 inches of snow approaching a day after 9 skiers went missing.

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

Experts say a weekslong “snow drought” in Norther California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly ...

The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history.

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.

A dangerous stretch continues in Colorado's high country as avalanche conditions remain critical following days of heavy snow ...

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 ...

There have been 18 avalanche deaths recorded in the West this year ...