Wyssen Towers, a form of Remote Avalanche Control System, can control slides from afar.

The Washington State Department of Transportation says a new remote-controlled system will replace the aging artillery once used to trigger avalanches over Snoqualmie Pass, marking a major safety and ...

Avalanche season in the Cascades and Olympics is here. This season’s first avalanche fatalities occurred late last week near ...

The booms echoing through Colorado's high country each winter are getting a high-tech upgrade. For years, crews with the Colorado Department of Transportation used howitzer cannons along I-70 to blast ...

Everything was silent on the Interstate 70 corridor for a moment Wednesday afternoon as the Colorado Department of Transportation held traffic a few miles east of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial ...

US 2 at Stevens Pass will temporarily close on early Friday for the Washington Department of Transportation to perform avalanche control.

Motorists looking to travel east of Revelstoke tomorrow will have to wait as avalanche control work is expected to close the Trans-Canada Highway for a couple hours.