At Mammoth Mountain, ski patrol teams use old artillery to trigger controlled avalanches and protect thousands of winter visitors.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington State Department of Transportation says a new remote-controlled system will replace the aging artillery once used ...

The Parks Canada safety manager tasked with keeping travellers safe as tonnes of snow threaten the Trans-Canada Highway ...

Were managers pushing too hard to open? Are young patrollers afraid to speak up? With two dead in deliberately triggered slides, questions are swirling.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah, is showing off one of the newer techniques it’s using to control avalanches: Wyssen Towers. Set to ...

AVSS, a Canadian company specializing in hardware and software solutions for drones, is pleased to announce that the company has completed its first round of on-mountain avalanche control testing.

A California ski patroller who was injured during avalanche control work on Friday has died, the resort announced. Cole Murphy was one of two Mammoth Mountain resort patrollers caught in a slide while ...

CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, Wash. -- A skier who went beyond the avalanche safety zones at Crystal Mountain ski resort was rescued Sunday evening after being partially buried in an avalanche. An official with ...

The booms echoing through Colorado's high country each winter are getting a high-tech upgrade. For years, crews with the Colorado Department of Transportation used howitzer cannons along I-70 to blast ...

Everything was silent on the Interstate 70 corridor for a moment on Wednesday afternoon as the Colorado Department of Transportation held traffic a few miles east of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial ...

Three people have died following an avalanche in the Italian Alps, according to the region's mountain rescue service. The ...