AVSS, a Canadian company specializing in hardware and software solutions for drones, is pleased to announce that the company has completed its first round of on-mountain avalanche control testing.

The Parks Canada safety manager tasked with keeping travellers safe as tonnes of snow threaten the Trans-Canada Highway ...

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 ...

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 on Wednesday afternoon as the Colorado Department of Transportation held traffic a few miles east of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Every year, avalanches in Colorado threaten lives and impact travel, so the Colorado Department of Transportation developed a system that uses artillery to ensure avalanches don’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah, is showing off one of the newer techniques it’s using to control avalanches: Wyssen Towers. Set to ...

Avalanche season in the Cascades and Olympics is here. This season’s first avalanche fatalities occurred late last week near Mt. Stuart and the Enchantments north of Cle Elum. Two others were in the ...