Mudslide in Val de Bagnes in canton Valais, Switzerland, 9 June, 2025.

The sudden and heavy snowfalls in Valais in April will cost the canton millions of francs and work is still underway clearing ...

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.

Around 30 residents were evacuated on Sunday in the upper Val de Bagnes in canton Valais due to heavy rainfall. People from ...

Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the Swiss mountain village of Blatten, which was wiped out by a devas ...

On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 28, almost "the entire Birch Glacier, located above Blatten, collapsed, causing a gigantic landslide," the Valais government said in a Thursday, May 29 ...

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX wants to set up 40 antennas in Leuk in the Swiss canton of Valais. These are to serve as ...

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 ...