The Federal Council is requesting five million francs in emergency aid for the Valais village of Blatten, which was devastated by a landslide. Parliament can decide on the matter in an extraordinary ...

A Swiss charity, which covers the uninsured damage of natural disasters, is supporting the landslide-devasted villages of ...

The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the ...

The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...

About 17,000 residents of Manitoba in central Canada have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires. Nearly ...

Celebrated actor Valerie Mahaffey is dead at age 71 after battling cancer. Her publicist said Mahaffey died Friday in Los ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten. A massive ...

Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...

"This region is used to risks that come simply from the fact that what surrounds those villages are really high mountains," ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...