15 people were on a guided ski trip when the avalanche struck Tuesday.

An iPhone crash-detection alert helped launch the search that found the body of a missing person in a submerged car.

A final missing skier was also presumed dead, the authorities said. Six survivors were rescued. The avalanche is the ...

The slide, which caught 15 people, appears to be the deadliest skier-involved avalanche in history, surpassing the 1982 ...

The avalanche is the deadliest in California since 1982, when seven people were killed at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort, now part of Palisades Tahoe. Authorities described a dangerous rescue operation ...

Weather and snow conditions will dictate when the bodies of skiers killed in the avalanche near Lake Tahoe can be retrieved ...

Search and rescue teams are now shifting their focus to recovering the eight, potentially nine bodies, after rescuing six survivors Tuesday night from the avalanche site near Castle Peak. “It’s a ...

The skiers went missing on Feb. 17 after the avalanche swept through the Castle Peak area, northwest of Lake Tahoe, at about 11:30 a.m.

The group was completing a three-day guided tour when the avalanche occurred on Tuesday, Feb. 17 ...