Tourism companies in the Lötschental in Canton Valais are getting creative as visitor numbers have plummeted following the ...

News ‘Major catastrophe’: Alpine village largely destroyed after a Swiss glacier collapses Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental ...

Residents in the Lötschental valley have been asked to prepare for evacuation. It comes after Wednesday's glacier collapse dumped millions of cubic meters of ice, rock and mud.A number of Alpine ...

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.© via REUTERS ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities ...

Video on social media and Swiss television showed that the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, partially submerged homes and other buildings under a mass of brownish sludge.

Repairing damage caused by last week’s floods in the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland will cost at least SFr20 million ($22.3 million). Lötschental was one of several areas hit by ...

A Lötschental Valley resident dressed as a Tschägättä strolls around the village of Wiler, in Valais, Switzerland moments before the annual Carnival Parade begins. Susan Portnoy ...

The Lötschental’s upper valley is widely considered the most beautiful in the Alps. It’s known as the “magic valley” and magic – or at any rate, something unexpected and delightful ...

Local authorities were deploying by helicopter and across the area to assess the damage, Jonas Jeitziner, a spokesman for the Lötschental crisis center, told The Associated Press by phone.

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.