Forecasters ranked the danger as 4 on a 5-level scale.

Eight skiers were killed and one is missing after a powerful avalanche near Lake Tahoe. Survivors used iPhone to contact rescuers.

Avalanche conditions near Galena Summit and the Eastern Mountains got downgraded from high to considerable on Thursday, but ...

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The avalanche, the deadliest in California history and fourth deadliest in U.S. history, killed at least eight people and ...

Most of the western U.S., including the Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada, has had an exceptionally warm winter—breaking records in many areas. And that unseasonable warmth may have caused a ...

The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) finalized an accident report for the avalanche that killed a man after a father and son had ...

A report from Carrot Canyon detailed a tragic avalanche in the Centennial Mountains of eastern Idaho last Sunday. A 21-year-old snowmobiler from Minnesota died in the ...

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 ...