Rescuers have confirmed that five German mountaineers died after an avalanche in South Tyrol, northern Italy.

Dozens of people are being evacuated by helicopter in Austria after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the Gschnitztal valley in Tyrol in the southwest of the Alpine country.

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

Officials in southern Italy say that a cable car carrying tourists south of Naples has crashed after the cable snapped, killing at least four people and critically injuring one.

Policy experts worry students will fall short of the state's future workforce needs. Educators hope the new curriculum will help them.

For decades, the Texas comptroller’s office has double-checked property valuations across the state, which help determine how much school districts can levy in property taxes. But when state and county appraisers disagree, districts can end up with big holes in their budgets.

Formula One team Alpine has secured a $218 million boost from a group of investors that includes Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds.

Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and at least one pickup truck before a looming deadline to evacuate a village in eastern Switzerland facing an urgent rockslide threat.

AlphaTauri is awaiting a decision from the FIA on Colton Herta’s eligibility to compete in Formula One next season.

When Aston Martin called Fernando Alonso to ask if was interested in replacing Sebastian Vettel, the Spaniard made a quick decision to leave Alpine.

Silly season has gone mad in motorsports and the domino effects stretch three series, across the globe and into at least one courtroom.

Carlos Hernandez will focus on student recruitment and bolstering academic programs at Sul Ross to combat declining enrollment.

As in many sports, and plenty of other fields, Alpine skiing has a lingua franca — those are the words and phrases that allow folks from various places to communicate in a shared language.

As Europe erects ever more fearsome barriers against migration, volunteers along the Italy-France border are working to keep migrants from being killed or maimed by cold and mountain mishaps as they cross the high Alps.

The Beijing Olympics are only weeks away and China has become a more problematic host than expected for an event that originally seemed destined to be staged in Europe.

After a season of being restricted to watching snow accumulate on distant mountains, Italian skiers are finally returning to the slopes that have been off-limits since the first pandemic lockdown in March 2020.

Federal officials say more than 60 migrants were found in a box truck stopped on a highway in the remote Big Bend region of West Texas.

Zermatt is home to one of the Swiss ski stations that has become an epicenter of discord among Alpine neighbors. “It's true, we're privileged,” said Salamin, enthusing about the “paradise” of the Zermatt slopes and gesturing over the ridgeline toward Italy. These seem only minor concessions to the hundreds of faithful skiers who gleefully turned out for a weekday jaunt on the Swiss slopes near the Matterhorn on Thursday. On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte confirmed Italian ski lifts will remain closed through Jan. 7. Austria will allow skiing to start on Dec. 24, but will limit the capacity of ski lifts until early January.