If you skied the Italian Olympic courses, you'd fly down the mountain. The special process of making world-class technical snow uses more water, resulting in snow that's particularly firm and durable.

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) — Although it’s been a bit of a warm winter thus far, New Mexico’s ski resorts are open for the season. Part of what makes this possible is the snowmaking process. And up at ...

When Mother Nature doesn’t deliver, it’s up to technology — and a dedicated crew willing to work in freezing cold weather while the rest of the world sleeps — to bring winter to the slopes. There has ...

At the Winter Olympics, athletes race down immaculate white slopes. The snow looks perfect. But it is largely manufactured. In Italy, where rising temperatures and declining snowfall were felt earlier ...

By 2050, the number of countries that could potentially host the Winter Olympic Games could be cut nearly in half, a new study has found.

By any metric, it’s been a ski season for the ages. Frequent snows, persistently cold temperatures and an around-the-clock ...