BOISE, Idaho – A large avalanche has closed a section of a central Idaho highway, and officials say the road will remain closed "until further notice" until the massive amounts of snow are removed and ...

At least 160 people were stranded in northeastern Japan after a snow avalanche blocked roads leading to a popular hot-spring resort, officials said Monday. The stranded people were staying at two ...

This past weekend a massive snowfall took place in the state, and in the process of this snow, a gigantic avalanche took place to cause a highway in the Gem State to close, and it remains closed as of ...

There’s no business without snow business for Scotland’s avalanche monitoring service. For the first time in its long history, it stopped looking for avalanches because there was not enough snow on ...

Both avalanches occurred after a "quick-moving" storm ultimately overperformed initial forecasts. One National Weather Service site in Alta received 17 inches of new snow between Friday and ...

Skiers, snowmobilers and hikers can set off an avalanche when a layer of snow collapses and starts to slide down the slope. In the U.S., avalanches are most common from December to April ...