An investigation to determine if backcountry guides were criminally negligent during a California ski trip that ended with eight people killed in an avalanche and another presumed dead has surprised legal experts,

After six skiers were rescued from the “horrific” aftermath of an avalanche near California’s Lake Tahoe, the family members of nine remaining skiers received crushing news. The bodies of eight had been left on the icy mountainside,

Six women killed in the deadliest avalanche in the U.S. in decades were part of a close-knit group of friends who were experienced backcountry skiers and knew how to navigate the wilderness of California's Sierra Nevada,

Crews have not yet recovered the bodies of the eight people killed in Tuesday’s avalanche or found the body of a ninth person missing and presumed dead.

One skier remains missing and is presumed dead after an avalanche buried a group of skiers near Lake Tahoe on Tuesday.

Another two skiers have been killed in the Lake Tahoe area as a deadly week for snow sports in the region continues to spiral. A 58-year-old man and a 33-year-old man died in separate incidents at Heavenly Mountain Resort on the California-Nevada border on Friday morning.

A skier has been found dead after reportedly going missing in the Sierra Nevada late Wednesday night. The Placer County Sheriff's Office said deputies received a report of a missing man in Truckee, California,

The identities of three of the eight backcountry skiers killed in a deadly avalanche at Lake Tahoe’s Castle Peak have been revealed. Kate Vitt, a former Sirius XM radio executive and mother of two from Marin County,