LOS ANGELES (AP) — Up to a foot of snow fell in Southern California's mountains as the first in a series of storms moved through California, bringing real winter weather after weeks of sporadic rain that has done little to ease drought. Authorities urged drivers on Sunday to bring their tire chains to the...
GREECE, N.Y. (AP) — Two young children forcibly taken from their western New York foster home were found Wednesday after authorities tracked a rental car to Alabama and found them on the floor of the backseat, police said. Police Chief Andrew Forsythe of Greece, New York, said a woman who had been in the...
MOUNT BALDY VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) — Southern California’s snowcapped mountains glistened early Wednesday under the light of the last full moon of the year following the region’s first significant storm of the winter. Ski and snowboarding areas in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains...
MOUNT BALDY VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) — Southern California’s mountains sported a substantial coat of snow Tuesday after the region’s first significant storm of the winter. Ski and snowboarding areas in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains reported as much as 24 inches (0.61 meter) of new...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities and a friend identified a Ski Santa Fe employee who died after hitting a tree while skiing during his free time over the weekend as a 22-year-old from Phoenix. Bryan Garcia moved to New Mexico and was working in equipment rentals at the ski basin, Sloan Simpson told the...
SEATTLE (AP) — Skiers and snowboarders are getting a double dose of good news as 2021 approaches, but those heading over the passes might need a double dose of headache medicine instead. An active weather pattern is moving in this final week of 2020, with two storms set to bring several feet of new snow to...
Here’s what’s happening Monday with the pandemic in the U.S.: THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY — A huge study of another COVID-19 vaccine candidate is getting underway Monday as states continue to roll out scarce supplies of the nation’s first shots. The candidate made by Novavax Inc. is the...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Over the summer, people looking to get out of the house snapped up boats, bicycles and patio furniture, figuring they were safer socializing and being active outdoors than inside. Now that temperatures are dropping, they’re buying snowshoes, skis, boots and winter coats,...
DENVER (AP) — Two backcountry skiers have been found dead after an avalanche in southwestern Colorado. Crews were working Sunday to recover the bodies of the pair, who were reported missing the night before after heading out for a ski trip north of Silverton known locally as the Battleship, according to...
Tens of millions of people are expected to travel to family gatherings or winter vacations over Christmas, despite pleas by public health experts who fear the result could be another surge in COVID-19 cases. In the U.S., AAA predicts that about 85 million people will travel between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3, most of...