During a news conference, Lt. Dennis Haack with the sheriff's office said California Highway Patrol and the California National Guard assisted on Feb. 21 in recovering the ninth and final skier, whose body was recovered at 10:58 a.

Crews recovered the bodies of nine backcountry skiers who were killed by an avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada, authorities said Saturday, concluding a harrowing operation that was hindered by in...

Six of the people who died have been identified as close friends and mothers who live in the Bay Area, Tahoe and Idaho.