Search underway for skiers caught in Sierra Nevada avalanche

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published February 18, 2026 at 11:52 AM EST

The search continues for nine skiers caught in an avalanche north of Lake Tahoe, California. Six others were rescued Tuesday amid one of the strongest winter storms of the year in and around the Donner Pass.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Kat Fulwider, reporter at KUNR in Reno.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Related Content

8 backcountry skiers found dead and 1 still missing after California avalanche

The Associated Press

Authorities say the bodies of eight backcountry skiers have been found and one remains missing after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in California. Six others were found alive.
FDA reverses course on Moderna flu shot

Sydney Lupkin

The Food and Drug Administration's about-face comes a little more than a week after the agency refused to consider the company's application to market the new kind of influenza vaccine.
Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions

Carrie Johnson, Tamara Keith

President Trump is asking the federal government for billions of dollars in damages, putting his own Justice Department on the spot and creating an unprecedented ethical morass.
Australia bans a citizen with alleged IS links from returning from Syria

The Associated Press

The Australian is among a group of 34 women and children who had planned to fly from Damascus to Australia on Monday but were turned back by Syrian authorities to the Roj detention camp due to procedural problems.
Do the people building the AI chatbot Claude understand what they've created?

Tonya Mosley

Anthropic is one of the world's most powerful AI firms. New Yorker writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains how they're trying to make chatbot Claude more ethical, and the implications of AI's widening use.

You make NHPR possible.

NHPR is nonprofit and independent. We rely on readers like you to support the local, national, and international coverage on this website. Your support makes this news available to everyone.

Give today. A monthly donation of $5 makes a real difference.