(AP Photo/Luca Bruno) A man is helped out from under the snow during a training ... a dog with the Italian National Alpine ...

Next year's Olympic sliding races will be in Italy after all, international luge officials predicted Saturday in another ringing endorsement of the newly rebuilt track in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

A man is helped out from under the snow during a training of the Italian ... Snow dumps have grown especially more common in Italy, on the southern edge of the Alps, facing the Mediterranean ...

During the same period ... Snow dumps have grown especially more common in Italy, on the southern edge of the Alps, facing the Mediterranean Sea. “The Mediterranean basin is considered a ...

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...

Avalanches involving people who need rescue in Italy have doubled since the turn of the century from a rolling average of 30 a year to 60, according to the AINEVA snow and avalanche monitoring service ...