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A skier survived after getting buried in an avalanche on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. The Mount Washington Avalanche Center reported in a Facebook post that the skier was carried from near the top of Left Gully almost to the floor of Tuckerman Ravine at about 3:30 p.m. Friday. The skier lost his skis and poles and when the flow…

West Point Cadet Peter Zhu was declared brain dead after suffering a spinal injury in a ski accident. Being the last male child in his family, his parents asked for a judge’s order to extract genetic material from his body to carry on the family name. Sergio Quintana reports.

Parts of southern Vermont could see two feet of snow by the time this week’s slow-moving storm wraps up Tuesday. The towns reporting the highest totals were through the Route 9 corridor and along the Massachusetts border, including Readsboro, Woodford, and Wilmington.

Bode and Morgan Miller are expecting twins. The former Olympic skier, 41, and the professional beach volleyball player, 32, made the happy announcement on TODAY Monday that they are expecting identical twin boys in the fall to add to their growing family. “Bode from the beginning of our relationship has always said, ‘I want identical twin boys born on my...

Italy will host the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, taking the Winter Games to the Alpine country for the second time in 20 years. International Olympic Committee members voted for the long-favored Milan-Cortina bid over Stockholm-Are from Sweden that also included a bobsled track in Latvia. Milan-Cortina’s jubilant delegation broke into chants of “Italia! Italia!” when the result...

Country music star Granger Smith and his wife, Amber, have opened up about the final moments with their son before his tragic drowning earlier this month. In an emotional new video, the couple spoke about trying to find meaning in the death of their son, River Kelly, 3, who died after falling into the pool at their Texas home. Smith...

Parts of Vermont were hit hard by heavy rain and flash flooding Sunday night into Monday morning, with the southern half of the state particularly impacted. A fast blast of rain combined with snowmelt created runoff that chewed through many spots across town, including on Liberty Hill Road.

Authorities have identified a skier who died in an avalanche on Mount Washington.

Authorities warn that the possibility of further avalanches is increasing a day after a skier died on the Northeast’s highest mountain. A spokesman for the White Mountain National Forest says a man skiing alone in an area called Raymond Cataract on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington was buried under about 5 feet of snow for an hour Thursday afternoon before rescuers...

A skier died at Cannon Mountain on Friday, according to New Hampshire State Police.

Cannon Mountain Ski Patrol responded around 2:45 p.m. Friday to a report of a two-skier collision on an open trail.

Gwyneth Paltrow said Wednesday in a court filing that a man who accused her in a lawsuit of crashing into him at a Utah ski resort was actually the culprit in the collision and is trying to exploit her celebrity and wealth.

A cross country skier was rescued after he fell through the ice of a Sudbury, Massachusetts pond on Tuesday. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., officials received a call from a man who had fallen through the ice on Willis Pond, authorities said. The incident happened when the man was cross country skiing on the pond and was unable to hold onto...

Lindsey Vonn walked off with her career haul of medals in her right hand, the gold, silver and bronze clinking together, almost weighing her down. Or was it the bulging knee braces and metal support rods inside her vast array of broken bones? Whatever it was, the sound was a reminder of what Vonn has come to symbolize — an...

On Christmas day, Bode Miller’s wife Morgan Miller posted a series of photos on Instagram to honor her late daughter Emmy Miller. The family photo post came just five months after Emmy, 19 months, died in a tragic drowning accident.

The wife of Olympic skier Bode Miller has shared a heart-wrenching photo of the couple’s dying daughter in hopes they can prevent other parents from experiencing a similar tragedy. Morgan Miller shared a photo on Instagram on Friday showing herself weeping as she held 19-month-old Emmy, who was hooked up to wires and tubes in the hospital. Miller writes that...

Nearly seven weeks after skier Bode Miller lost his young daughter in a drowning accident, the U.S. Olympian and his wife are speaking publicly for the first time to warn parents how quickly a child can be lost. In an interview that aired in full Monday on the “Today” show, Bode Miller told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that the tragedy his...

British film stars Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley and Tom Hardy and Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro are among those receiving honors in the name of Britain’s monarch. The list published late Friday by Britain’s Cabinet Office includes many receiving honors for merit, service and bravery. The awards will be given out by Queen Elizabeth II or a senior royal acting...