16+ hour, 3+ min ago  (371+ words) For the second time in less than a year, a pair of ski patrollers at Mammoth Mountain have been caught in an avalanche after a major snowstorm. At about 7:30 a.m. Friday, before the resort opened, the two were performing "avalanche mitigation…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1240+ words) Growing up just outside Melbourne, Australia, Scotty James was more likely to spot the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot as he was to spot snow. For him, the winter Olympics seemed about as accessible as Mars. "It is very…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (675+ words) It may have felt like the recent rain would never end in Los Angeles, but the record-breaking precipitation in Southern California has failed to translate into a much-desired dumping of snow at ski resorts across the state. While Friday was…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (666+ words) A former Olympic snowboarder who allegedly became the head of a billion-dollar drug trafficking organization has been charged with ordering the murder of a witness against him earlier this year, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (203+ words) While folklore says you can predict winter weather by the number of nuts the squirrels have collected or the width of the stripes on woolly bear caterpillars, Bryan Allegretto doesn't put much stock into those forecasts. "Seems to me, those…...