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Officials say California’s popular Squaw Valley Ski Resort will change its name because the word “squaw” is a derogatory term for Native American women

U.S. ski areas employ thousands of international college students each year to fill seasonal jobs during what is their summer break

As ski resorts across the United States grappled with how to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus without having to close, industry giants Vail Resorts and Alterra Mountain Company decided Saturday they would shutter 49 of North America’s most well-known resorts

Many have a day off from work and school and some spent the day skiing.

This weekend’s record-high temperatures that approached 70 degrees in many locations caused places like Powder Ridge Mountain Park and Resort in Middlefield to stop making snow and close down. Conditions became unsafe for skiers and they needed to close down in order for the snow to dry out from recent rain and warm temperatures, according to the resort’s owner,...

It’s hard to warm up to this week’s frigid temperatures, unless your business relies on it. Those especially happy to see this week’s forecast are ski shop owners. As the temperatures drop, revenues climb. Bruce Freedman co-owns Fatty’s Skis and Boards where he’s seen early indications of a potentially profitable ski season. “It’s big from here all the way...

Ski Sundown was busy Friday as skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes for opening day.

Hundreds of people in candy cane-colored suits gathered at the bottom of a mountain in the Angeles National Forest Sunday morning to ride the chairlift together, up to the top. Once there, the throng zoomed down the snowy slope at Mountain High Resorts. One woman bundled up in the familiar getup laughed and trudged back up the mountain with her…

The California Watermelon Festival is back, and so is its most memorable competition.

If you are looking to book a vacation to kick off the summer, Vermont’s Woodstock Inn and Resort has something for everyone. The 142 room resort, which started as a tavern more than 200 years ago, offers over 40 activities. Culinary programs, swimming in pools and streams, skiing and snowshoeing at Mt. Tom, hiking, and playing tennis and golf on...

If you are looking to book a vacation to kick off the summer, Vermont’s Woodstock Inn and Resort has something for everyone. The 142 room resort, which started as a tavern more than 200 years ago, offers over 40 activities. Culinary programs, swimming in pools and streams, skiing and snowshoeing at Mt. Tom, hiking, and playing tennis and golf on...

Close to 1,000 athletes are competing in Special Olympics Connecticut’s 51st annual Winter Games this weekend.

Organizers for Special Olympics Connecticut are hard at work getting the courses competition-ready for the winter games this weekend.

The long, long wait is over. Team USA ended their 42-year Olympic medal drought in cross-country skiing Wednesday and they made American cross-country history in the process. Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall became the first American cross-country skiers to capture a gold medal by winning the women’s team sprint at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Sweden captured...

After helping Team USA to win a historic gold medal in cross-country skiing, Jessie Diggins will bear the U.S. flag at the closing ceremony in Pyeongchang Sunday. Fellow Team USA members voted for Diggins to represent them at the ceremony. Appearing on the Today show Friday morning, Diggins said being the one to carry her country’s flag is “absolute icing...

The town of Madison has put itself on the Olympic map. Three athletes from that single shoreline community are currently in Pyeongchang preparing to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

With plenty of blue sky above and fresh snow on the slopes, thousands of skiers and snowboarders took advantage of the conditions at Mt. Southington on Sunday.

Mikaela Shiffrin is one of the fastest skiers in the world. But can she draw something in under thirty seconds?

At the Sochi Games, he was the medal-winning athlete who overshadowed that achievement by rescuing five stray dogs. In Pyeongchang, he’s vacuuming up attention with his “We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it” posts and photos of him kissing skater Adam Rippon, and taking swipes at U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. Eventually, Gus Kenworthy hopes, he’ll be talked about...

When Simen Hegstad Krueger slipped and fell on the first lap of the 30-kilometer cross-country skiathlon and found himself face down in the snow with two rivals on top of him, he figured his hopes at an Olympic medal were over. He couldn’t have been more wrong. “Here it is my first ever Olympic race, and it starts in the...