Caltrans doesn't expect any travel impacts as it replaces the Gazex installations near Kirkwood Mountain Resort, California.

Drone Amplified wins FAA approval for its MONTIS avalanche control drone, opening a legal path for U.S. commercial operations ...

Instead of firing artillery weapons or throwing explosives from a helicopter, a Canadian company is using drones for avalanche control. Last year, the federal government gave Aerial Vehicle Safety ...

On the afternoon of March 23, 2005, a bomb fell out of the sky and exploded in Scott and Lori Connors’ backyard in Pleasant Grove, cratering their lawn, sending shrapnel into their living room and ...

AVSS, a Canadian company specializing in hardware and software solutions for drones, is pleased to announce that the company has completed its first round of on-mountain avalanche control testing.

Avalanche season in the Cascades and Olympics is here. This season’s first avalanche fatalities occurred late last week near Mt. Stuart and the Enchantments north of Cle Elum. Two others were in the ...

A geophysicist and a ski area avalanche forecaster got together to create Got-U, a new app that could save skiers’ lives. In the dispatch center at California’s Palisades Tahoe on a late-season storm ...

STEVENS PASS, Wash. – US 2 at Stevens Pass will temporarily close on early Friday for the Washington Department of Transportation to perform avalanche control. The closure will take place at 4 a.m. on ...

High in the Swiss Alps, Fabrice Meyer and his security team trigger minor avalanches to prevent major disasters. “In some professions, you learn everything in 10 or 12 years,” says avalanche-security ...