Whit Monday on June 9th is a holiday in most Swiss cantons, which means a long weekend off for the majority of people. Here’s ...

Authorities in Valais said on Thursday that it was still too dangerous to begin clear-up activities around the village of ...

Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide - A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused by a falling glacier were “not alone” and the wealthy Alpine country was c ...

By Friday morning 365 people had been forced to leave their homes because of Wednesday's landslide in the Swiss village of ...

At least one person is missing after the village, Blatten, in the Valais Canton in southern Switzerland, was buried beneath ...

A massive chunk of the Birch Glacier collapsed into the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten, burying 90% of it under ice, mud, ...

A glacier collapsed in the Swiss Alps. It triggered a landslide. The landslide buried much of Blatten village in Valais canton. Residents had already ...

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 ...