Alaska Wildlife Troopers said an avalanche buried three skiers under a blanket of snow between 40 and 100 feet deep in a ...

The slide happened late on Tuesday afternoon near the skiing community of Girdwood, located about 40 miles south of Anchorage ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory said signs indicated a Mount Spurr eruption was likely, though not certain, in the weeks or ...

Authorities in Alaska say they will attempt Thursday to reach the site of an avalanche that trapped three skiers earlier this ...

The avalanche occurred late Tuesday afternoon near Girdwood, a skiing community about 40 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska.

Alaska State Troopers say three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche ...

Three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche and likely killed under the weight of dozens of feet of snow, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.

The three missing adults had flown by helicopter to the snowy mountain range for skiing, known as heli-skiing, near the resort town of Girdwood, the Alaska State Troopers said in a news release.

A call came in from the Rescue Coordination Center with information about an airplane crash in the mountains. The sun had just set and night flying in the Alaska mountains is dangerous ...

A trio of skiers who were trapped by an avalanche in the Alaska backcountry are all believed to be dead, according to Alaska ...