Two people are dead after a landslide hit their home in New Zealand, and authorities are searching for several others feared dead in a separate slip at a busy campground. The two landslides, about 17 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WCNC Charlotte Landslides can strike with little warning, and in Western North Carolina, history has shown just how deadly they ...

Vashon and Maury Islands have their share of landslide-prone areas, especially along shoreline bluffs and other areas with ...

While studying the deadliest landslide in U.S. history—the 2014 Oso disaster that killed 43 people in Washington’s Steelhead Haven neighborhood—Joseph Wartman found himself perplexed. While most of ...

Roughly 6.5 million people in the U.S. live in areas that are highly susceptible to landslides. West Coast residents — including those on the Oregon Coast and Washington’s Puget Sound — face the ...

Almost six years after a landslide killed two people in Haines, Alaska, the town still bears a scar of flattened trees. “Even though I was here when all this happened, seeing this scar really startles ...

A landslide near Chumchet, Gorkha, blocked and released the Budhi Gandaki River on Oct. 11, leaving 5 missing, homes destroyed, and a hydropower site damaged.

Landslides cause an estimated $3 billion to $6 billion in damage and multiple fatalities annually in the United States. Those numbers could easily increase as housing needs spur development in ...

AVERY COUNTY, N.C. — Landslides are considered among the most dangerous kinds of natural disasters, but they often catch communities off guard. Nearly half of the United States is at risk and not ...

The tragic events in the Bay of Plenty this week are a stark reminder that landslides remain the deadliest of the many natural hazards New Zealand faces. A large landslide swept through the Mount ...