Sometimes nicknamed Italy's "Little Tibet," this town in the Rhaetian Alps—with a population of around 6,800—is famous for freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Nestled in the heart of the Alta ...

Ski towns are so expensive that workers struggle to afford local housing and stay in their jobs. Vail, Colorado has spent $17 million paying homeowners to rent to local workers, according to the Wall ...

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Aspen is a luxury playground for the rich and famous where property sells for $8,000 a square foot. After spending a few days here, I thought it lived up to its wealthy reputation. Nestled in Colorado ...

I am somewhere in the trees. Thigh-deep in powder. Stomping through the snow. Not riding my board as I should be but carrying it. Muttering to myself about taking the wrong line and getting stuck, I ...

In the small town of Kutchan, near the internationally renowned Niseko ski slopes in Japan, a barren field once planted with potatoes has become a flash point for a national conflict over labor, ...

The debris and mud slide near the base of the road to the Okemo ski resort have long been cleared away, and open flags now hang outside shops and restaurants in a small Vermont ski town hit by severe ...

Is Driggs, with its one main road and 2,200 permanent residents, destined to join Jackson, Wyo., and Park City, Utah, as the next scene-y western mountain hot spot? To look at the town now, it seems ...

Winter is fast-approaching, which means ski plans need to be made as soon as possible. USA Today came up with a list of the top 10 best ski towns in North America, as chosen by a specialized panel and ...

GARDABAER, Iceland (Reuters) - On a quiet Sunday in the "Lazy Town" warehouse, the man many of the world's children know as Sportacus was working up some optimism for Iceland. "The Icelandic people ...

After the Ascutney ski resort in Vermont closed because of erratic snowfall and mismanagement, it threatened to take with it the nearby town of West Windsor. The community took the situation into its ...