She spotted an avalanche on the slope, initiated a transceiver search and immediately acquired a signal, the report said. She pinpointed him with her avalanche probe and yelled for help as she started digging through 3 feet of debris his body was buried under.

Payne grew up in Laguna Beach, California, and moved to Boise in the eighth grade. He starred at Owyhee (Idaho) High School and after a couple of years playing basketball at Colorado State University found his way back to Moscow and the Idaho Vandals.

Colorado Department of Transportation plow drivers came to the rescue when they stopped a police chase on Interstate 70.

This story has been updated to correct a date regarding a chairlift fall at Breckenridge Ski Resort. Falls from chairlifts injure skiers and snowboarders every year in Colorado but the vast majority

Ice climbers in Lake City noticed a bull elk entangled in a climbing rope near one of the ice walls. Our Lake City wildlife officer, Lucas Martin, received a call about the elk, recruited some backup and deployed to the scene. pic.twitter.com/cewc5vMCEv

N. Colorado 12-5 We've got another exciting Big Sky matchup on schedule as the Portland State Vikings and the N. Colorado Bears are set to tip at 8:00 p.m. ET on Thursday at Bank of Colorado Arena. The Vikings are strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 79.

A skier died in an avalanche, Colorado officials said. On Jan. 7, a backcountry skier was “caught, buried, and killed in an avalanche on Red Mountain Number 3” near Bollywood, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

There are no nights off in the Scenic West Athletic Conference. Just ask No. 15 College of Southern Idaho men’s basketball guard Tanner Hayhurst, who shared those sentiments after Wednesday’s

Even when the sun warms up a bitter winter morning and freshly fallen snow gently catches and cradles each footstep, the climb up to St. Mary’s Glacier is a challenge. A group of Colorado

Around 120 Weber State fans bused Saturday to Idaho State (about 75 students, and about another 40 on a trip paid for by Dillon Jones) to see the Wildcats try to avoid history. The last time WSU was in Reed Gym,

Northern Colorado visits the Montana State Bobcats after Langston Reynolds scored 27 points in the Bears’ 93-92 overtime win over the Idaho State Bengals

Gray wolves roamed across Colorado’s mountains for thousands of years. But by 1940, the last of Colorado’s gray wolves, like those throughout most of the Rocky Mountains, had been killed