Hospital emergency rooms tend to see a large increase in the number of people with chest pain and shortness of breath during snowstorms, most of which can be blamed on shoveling, according to Dr.

The founder of the guiding company currently under investigation for its actions around the deadly Lake Tahoe avalanche is an ...

A key statute was designed to rein in the Homeland Security secretary and prevent deadly mistakes. Lawyers say its provisions are difficult to enforce.

Questions remain, but authorities recommended no travel in the backcountry Tuesday with conditions so dangerous.

Helicopters flew over the avalanche site to assess the avalanche danger and the snowpack. Later, they began setting off ...

The group had spent two nights at the Frog Lake huts and was returning to the trailhead when the avalanche struck.

The bodies of eight backcountry skiers who died in the largest avalanche in state history Tuesday will not be recovered Thursday due to hazardous weather conditions, officials said.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump approved on Thursday Louisiana’s request for a major disaster declaration, which opens ...

The company has been criticized relentlessly on social media for setting out Sunday with 11 paying clients and four guides for a three-day backcountry ski trip with the strongest storm of the ...

Eight skiers were killed and one other was presumed dead in the deadliest snow disaster in modern California history. Six were found alive.

In 1982, seven people were killed in an avalanche at the Alpine Meadows resort in North Lake Tahoe. In 2008, three men were ...

A winter storm warning forecast up to 8 feet of snow in California’s Lake Tahoe Region and the avalanche conditions were ...