The brother of an 11-year-old girl who was trapped in a backcountry avalanche in Utah was able to locate his sister, but she ...

The Castle Peak region, site of the avalanche, is a backcountry area in the Sierra Nevada, popular year-round and easily ...

Crews recovered the victims days after the avalanche struck near Lake Tahoe, killing six friends and three professional guides, authorities said.

The fatalities followed an avalanche earlier this week that authorities said killed nine people who were on a guided tour.

Two skiers died in separate incidents at Heavenly Mountain Resort near Lake Tahoe on Friday, Feb. 20, the Tahoe Douglas Fire ...

The President’s Day weekend excursion, including a group of moms, wives and close friends who shared a passion for skiing the untracked powder of the hushed, untamed wilderness of California’s Sierra ...

Two men died in separate incidents at Heavenly Ski Resort in the Lake Tahoe area, marking another deadly day in a string of ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Two people were killed in separate incidents Friday morning at Heavenly Lake Tahoe, the latest in a line ...

Helicopters flew over the avalanche site to assess the avalanche danger and the snowpack. Later, they began setting off explosives to trigger small snow slides.

Officials in Nevada County, Calif., are investigating whether there could have been criminal negligence involved in the ...