Meanwhile, more storms will follow next week, with one system due to reach central and Southern California from late Monday ...

Between resignations, firings and paperwork errors, at least 23 of the roughly 200 people in the Weather Service’s Alaska ...

Thoman said he expects data outages like the weather balloon stations in Western Alaska to happen more often and last longer. Political leaders across the state on both sides of the political ...

Currently, the U.S. operates about 100 weather balloon sites ... free data for 6 months to the NWS to help fill in the data gap that will now exist in western Alaska. “We are disappointed to learn ...

The large avalanche occurred Tuesday afternoon in the Chugach Mountains near Girdwood, according to the Alaska Department of ...

This will bring some cooler conditions to Alaska, where Anchorage has been ... it may end on a more thunderous note. The late-week western storm could emerge into the Plains on Friday, bringing ...

Avalanche danger remains considerable at Turnagain Pass, where this avalanche occurred about 45 minutes south of Anchorage.

The NWS issues winter storm warnings when "a significant combination of hazardous winter weather is occurring or imminent." ...

Poor weather prevented Alaska State Troopers, avalanche experts and recovery ... Both brothers settled in the West, Charlie ...

With diminishing daylight and the high avalanche risk in West ... Alaska Wildlife troopers returned to the area but were unable to access the site where the skiers are located because of weather.

The group was traveling with guides from a commercial heli-skiing operation, which escorts backcountry skiers via helicopter ...