In the heart of the Julian Alps in northeast Italy, four winter sports athletes have conquered a 1,148 ft (350 ) long course ...

Archaeologists thought they found wires buried on a farm. It was actually Viking treasure. Dog chewing battery-powered heated ...

STORY: Rescue operations were underway in the Italian Alps on Monday (July 4) after part of a mountain glacier collapsed amid record temperatures, killing at least six people and injuring eight, local ...

Climate change has left a graveyard of abandoned ski resorts on the Italian Alps—and a dwindling population of gravekeepers. Photographer Tomaso Clavarino has been traveling to Italy’s Alpine glaciers ...

Italian alpine rescuers say three skiers have been killed in avalanche in the northern Italian Alps near the French border that injured another five people. Milan Walter of the national alpine rescue ...

Rome — Venice has long been known for its perennial flooding, but now it's facing the opposite problem: A long stretch of atypically low tides have left the ancient city with low water and dry canals, ...

An Alpine chalet with a view of the Matterhorn—a dramatic mountain peak in the Swiss Alps—has hit the market for €24 million (US$26.53 million), making it the priciest property ever listed on the ...

This sumptuous lodge sits high above a resort village — but is dwarfed by a legendary mountain. Some 325 feet above the town of Cervinia, Italy, and in full view of the Matterhorn, a chalet known as ...