Winter Sports

Twenty years ago, athletes from around the world traveled to Salt Lake City for the Winter Olympics. Among the leaders was now-Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. He joined Pamela McCall to look back at the games and ahead to the prospect of doing it all over again.

Salt Lake City ski racer Bella Wright heads to the Beijing Winter Olympics Tuesday morning. The 24-year-old, who started racing at Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon, will compete in the downhill and super-G events — where she could reach speeds of 85 mph. She’s also travelling headlong into controversy at the Olympics, with a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the games in place and tough COVID-19 restrictions.

Search and rescue teams encourage people recreating outdoors to be prepared for cold weather and let someone know where you’ll be.

Storms expected to hit Utah later this week could create more dangerous conditions on top of the weak snowpack.

On a frigid Tuesday evening, Brent Yatkeman is scrambling to save an avalanche victim buried in the snow somewhere on a ski hill near Park City, Utah. The…