Some mountain roads inspire awe from a distance and dread from behind the wheel. The most notorious passes combine sheer drops, thin air, and weather that turns from postcard blue to whiteout in ...

The Colorado road known as the Million Dollar Highway received an upgrade in five new, permanent avalanche-triggering mechanisms. The devices were placed atop known slide chutes above U.S. 550. "These ...

MP Materials, operator of the Mountain Pass mine in California’s Mojave Desert, is ramping up supplies of the critical ingredients and magnets used in autos, electronics and military hardware as China ...

At the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, the Mountain Pass mine looks like any other stretch of dust and rock. But for decades, this lonely pit supplied the world with the rare-earth elements that ...

WSDOT crews will tell you, it isn’t usually the heavy snow that closes our mountain passes in the winter.The road is usually ...

The Cascades and western Washington are expected to get a significant amount of snow Tuesday and Wednesday, to the point that the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Winter Storm Warning.

Silverton resident Jeremy Ham drives over two of Southwest Colorado’s five major mountain passes nearly every day – rain, shine, snow or sleet. He comes to Durango early in the morning for work and ...

A Winter Weather Advisory is in place for the Cascade mountains, making travel "very difficult to impossible," according to ...

Up to a foot of snow could fall on Oregon's mountain passes, making travel difficult but building up the state's mountain ...