Investigations are ongoing into the deadly Feb. 17 avalanche near Perry Peak. The Sierra Avalanche Center (SAC) continues to release new details as their investigation unfolds. Recently released ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of forecasters for the Sierra Avalanche Center provide daily avalanche advisories based on their field observations ...

A series of tragic deaths in Canada, the U.S. and Europe is showing how tricky avalanches still are to predict. Will that change with global warming?

REMOVE THE REMAINS FROM THAT MOUNTAIN BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME CONDITIONS, AND THIS IS NOW THE DEADLIEST AVALANCHE IN MODERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY. PREVIOUSLY, AN INCIDENT AT ALPINE MEADOWS HELD THAT ...

NEVADA CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- Avalanches are common in the Sierra. The Tahoe region alone sees as many as 40 reported slides each winter. Most of them are in the backcountry during winter storms. They ...

An avalanche — a mass of snow moving down a slope — happens most often in the wilderness. Watching for forecasts, bringing the proper gear and getting training to prepare for them can help with ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. An ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Amid a tragic week in Utah's mountains — three people died and three others were injured in five avalanches in Salt Lake and Wasatch counties — a forecaster got a bird's-eye view of ...

At least eight backcountry skiers are dead after a group of 15 were swept away by an avalanche Tuesday near Castle Peak in the Lake Tahoe area, The Sacramento Bee reported. Six were rescued and the ...

The conditions that drove the deadliest avalanche in California's modern history began to emerge days in advance, as a blizzard brewed after an unusually dry January in the Sierra Nevada. Citing rapid ...