A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An avalanche mitigation caused snow to plunge down the mountain in Utah. Dramatic footage shows the avalanche gathering speed as it slides down a hillside on January 5, blocking the SR-210 road.

A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...

Utah is known for its snow. The storms that pass through the state deposit heaps of powder at famed ski resorts like Alta and Snowbird, providing bottomless turns. Alta, during an average season ...

A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...

A shelter-in-place order is no longer in effect after an avalanche temporarily stranded more than 1,000 people around the town of Alta on Friday afternoon, but authorities warned the danger of ...