The work is part of a larger project to improve safety along Vail Pass by straightening out some of the dangerous curves.

Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

It would be another 10 days, however, before it opened fully. The work in the canyon isn’t done, though. Draney, the UDOT engineer, pictures more avalanches and more closures in the future.

Avalanches happen when a large, stable snowpack sits on top of a weaker, less cohesive layer of snow. Loose unstable snow acts like sand on a shuffleboard table, allowing the large cohesive slab ...

Twelve avalanches were documented on Sunday, including a skier-triggered slide in a bowl near Soda Springs that sent snow sliding 500 feet, and a snowmobile-triggered, 200-foot wide break across a ...

Avalanches are more common after a recent snowstorm, so if the weather has fluctuated between dry and warm to a snowstorm, be very mindful of where you choose to ski and snowboard.

An unusually high risk of avalanches has caused UDOT to close Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons for long stretches this week. Here's what's causing them and when the snow might settle.

Avalanches and landslides are common in Kashmir, which is divided between Pakistan and India, though both sides claim the entire territory. Reporting by Habibullah Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The danger of avalanches Mountain mornings above Ketchum, Idaho often begin with cannon fire. The enemy? Avalanches. The Sun Valley Ski Patrol uses explosives to test the snowpack on the ...