A trio of skiers is likely buried under an avalanche near Anchorage, Alaska, that occurred Tuesday afternoon, but dangerous ...

A radio station owner and his two friends were killed after heli-skiing onto a rugged Alaskan mountain and getting trapped in ...

Three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche and likely killed under the weight of dozens of feet of snow, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.

Troopers and rescue teams are working to reach skiers trapped by an avalanche in the remote backcountry near Girdwood ...

If the deaths are confirmed, it would be the deadliest U.S. avalanche since three climbers were killed in a slide in ...

trail breakers said no snow since that Jan. 31 announcement led them to deem one portion of the trail — from the Rohn to Nikolai checkpoints — north of the Alaska Range as unpassable.

The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, points to the Cascade Range possibly holding the biggest volcanic aquifer system on the planet. The timing couldn't have ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lack of snow along a dangerous stretch of trail has led organizers of the world’s most famous sled dog race to move the start of the Iditarod farther north.

An avalanche in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains has killed two backcountry skiers, authorities said Tuesday. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that its search-and-rescue ...