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The sudden and heavy snowfalls in Valais in April will cost the canton millions of francs and work is still underway clearing ...
A 64-year-old man is missing after the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed by a 'gigantic landslide' following a Glacier collapse, authorities have said.
Mudslide in Val de Bagnes in canton Valais, Switzerland, 9 June, 2025.
The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.
Video. Residents of Val de Bagne woke up on Monday to new debris flows after a major mudslide forced around 30 people to ...
Around 30 residents were evacuated on Sunday in the upper Val de Bagnes in canton Valais due to heavy rainfall. People from ...
According to an initial estimate, the landslide in Blatten in Valais will cost insurers around 320 million Swiss francs. The ...
A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a ...
To prevent the disease of cholera from spreading in the 1830s, people stayed close to home, only eating what they had at hand ...