A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...

The Utah Avalanche Center shared a video Sunday of an explosive-triggered avalanche at Alta Ski Area. They noted that there were others in the backcountry that did not require explosives.

The inordinate amount of snow Utah has received this season — closing in on 900 inches at Alta Ski Area — had been like Botox for the state’s mountain ranges. The snow has filled in all the ...

ALTA, Utah (KUTV) — For the second week in a row, there is fresh powder in the Northern Utah mountains following another round of winter storms. On Saturday, the Utah Avalanche Center listed the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's most recent storm officially brought as much as 71 inches, or just shy of 6 feet, of snow by the Alta lifts between Sunday and Friday mornings, according to updated ...

Utah's Department of Transportation is adding to its fleet of remotely operated avalanche-triggering towers to try to mitigate the danger of slides over the town of Alta starting this winter.

A massive avalanche that was intentionally triggered at Utah's Alta Ski Area caught and briefly carried two ski patrollers over the weekend. The incident was caught on camera.

For years, Alta famously used howitzers to control its avalanches, lobbing artillery shells at avalanche trigger points. That program has since been phased out but Dave Richards, the former Alta ...

A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...

A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...

A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...