Alpine Skiing News

Eight snow competitions in the 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in the mountain ski resort of Whistler, two hours north of the comparatively balmy Vancouver.

A Rocky Mountain Cycle Tours guest takes a well-deserved break at the Stutfield Glacier viewpoint on the climb up to the Columbia Icefields.

A trackhoe growls as it carves the dirt where a second ski lodge will be built at the White Pass ski area.

For the fourth time in a row Maine faces a broad scramble to succeed a two-term governor.

Alison McWeeny, the 20-year-old Central Washington University student-athlete who lost her lower leg in a boating accident last week, was listed in satisfactory condition Friday at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center.

Alberto Contador didn't win the Tour de France on this wonderfully untrammeled ski slope in the high Pyrenees Friday, nor did Lance Armstrong didn't lose it.

" Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense from 1961 to 1969, will forever be remembered as the architect of a war gone terribly wrong.

Beware Olympic planners. El Nino lurks. Forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday the weather phenomenon is building in the Pacific Ocean.

After two decades of legal battles, work is under way to nearly double the size of the White Pass ski resort south of Mount Rainier.

Three Idaho women are due to be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, including Olympic gold medalists Andrea Mead Lawrence and Picabo Street and Paralympian Sarah Wills.

El Nino bad news for winter sports outlook Story Published: Jul 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM PDT By Scott Sistek It's official.

Going slow just feels wrong to Ted Ligety. The gradual process of rehabilitating a knee that quite nearly needed surgery has moved at a pace not nearly hectic enough for the 24-year-old ski racer.

Seventy-nine miles north of Vancouver, Whistler is widely regarded as one of the world's best ski resorts.

Scores of British tourists had to be rescued from a sinking wooden boat after a jet-ski rammed into its side leaving a gaping hole.

Witt joins Munich bid Retired figure skater Katarina Witt, seen in a 2003 photo, will lead the board of trustees for Munich's 2018 Olympic bid.

A burned body found near Malaga in April has been identified as that of a missing Irishman.

Authorities are investigating a boating accident that caused an Ellensburg woman to lose part of her leg.

Police are urging jet-skiers to be safe at sea following reports of many venturing too close to swimmers along the Sussex coast.

A line of skiers race to glide over a icy pond on Blackcomb mountain in Whistler, B.C., on May 18, the last day of skiing on the hill for the year.

DANGEROUS jet ski drivers are being targeted in a new campaign by Sussex Police.