While winter weather blanketed much of the United States in snow last week, mountains in the western part of the country are sparser than usual. The amount of compressed snow, or snowpack, in some ...

Water supplies and winter tourism are threatened by the lack of snow.

The headwaters of the mighty Colorado River start in clear, cold mountain streams fed by snowmelt from jagged Rocky Mountain peaks. But those peaks are in the grip of a winter snow drought and its bad ...

Last month's winter storm brought several inches of snowfall to much of Missouri, but it did not leave much of a dent in the ongoing drought conditions.

A second consecutive year of below-average snowfall and above-average temperatures has firefighters across the Western United States concerned. In La Plata County, fire departments are anticipating ...

Much of the U.S. east of the Rockies is snowbound and enduring more than two weeks of bone-chilling abnormal cold, but in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volcanic rock seen on the slopes of Mount Saint Helens in Washington state on Jan. 17, with Mount Adams in the background. In a ...

The western United States is drying up. Wildfires are scorching the region at unprecedented rates, drought conditions are at their worst in decades, and millions of Americans are relying on a water ...

Little snowpack, strikes by mountain staff and Trump administration policies that are keeping international visitors away have made this a difficult season in the Rockies and beyond.

Last weekend’s winter storm may have covered much of the country in a glut of snow and ice, but the season has not delivered out West, where several states face a snowpack drought. In Colorado, the ...