(FOX40.COM) — New details on last week’s fatal avalanche show the heroic efforts of three skiers who saved companions who were buried in the snow. On Feb. 17, a group of 15 backcountry skiers were ...

The heaviest of the snowfall may be finished in the Sierra Nevada, but the risk for avalanche remained high enough Monday that the National Weather Service issued a new avalanche watch. Expert: Deadly ...

BRIGHTON — An 11-year-old Massachusetts girl who died Thursday in an avalanche near Brighton Ski Resort has been identified. The Salt Lake County sheriff's search and rescue teams were called to ...

Truckee, California — Survivors tried to unbury their friends when an avalanche struck a group of backcountry skiers near Lake Tahoe in Northern California earlier this week, according to new ...

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

Nathalie Vriend receives funding from the Moore Foundation, and in the past from the Royal Society and NERC among others. A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near ...

Nine skiers are missing after they were overwhelmed by an avalanche in Northern California, authorities said. The avalanche in Truckee, Calif., hit Tuesday morning, engulfing a group of backcountry ...

Six backcountry skiers were rescued and nine others were still missing after an avalanche in Northern California swept through on Feb. 17 as a powerful winter storm battered the region with heavy snow ...

LATEST Feb. 17, 10:50 p.m. The six skiers who survived an avalanche in the Castle Peak area of Truckee have been rescued Tuesday evening, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office announced in a Facebook ...

NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. — Update: The Nevada County Sheriff's Office says the six surviving skiers have been rescued. Two of the skiers were taken to the hospital Officials said the group of skiers who ...

Ten skiers remained missing Tuesday afternoon after an avalanche struck in the Sierra Nevada near Truckee, authorities said. A group of 16 backcountry skiers was involved in the slide near Castle Peak ...

Fifteen backcountry skiers were caught in an avalanche Tuesday near Lake Tahoe as heavy snow fell across the Sierra Nevada, officials said. At least six were rescued, but nine were still unaccounted ...