An avalanche is a sudden, fast-moving slide of snow down a mountain slope, triggered when weather conditions weaken the ...

Officials said Friday that warmer weather and incoming rain had elevated the avalanche risk for some parts of Juneau.

Avalanche experts say adding sensors that measure wind, solar radiation and snowpack temperatures could help refine avalanche ...

Avalanche season in the Cascades and Olympics is here. This season’s first avalanche fatalities occurred late last week near ...

High avalanche risk prompted National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists to issue a rare weather warning in Juneau, Alaska, ...

Unseasonably warm weather created dangerous avalanche conditions in the Bridger-Teton region of Wyoming, with two avalanche-related deaths reported ...

Backcountry users across Colorado are being urged to remain cautious after several recent human-triggered avalanches, even as ...

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center has launched new tools to help those recreating in the backcountry access avalanche ...

Avalanche experts say recent storms followed by prolonged warming are making snowpack conditions harder to assess, increasing ...

Active high wind and avalanche alerts have been issued for south-central and southwestern Montana, effective this evening ...

On any given winter morning, several members of the Northwest Avalanche Center’s 11-member team commute to one of the region’s hardiest jobs: avalanche observation. From Mount Hood ...