Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the Swiss mountain village of Blatten, which ...

At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...

The “Blatten of the future” should also benefit ... According to Finance Director Franziska Biner, canton Valais is on a sound financial footing. Among other things, she mentioned the fiscal ...

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...

A glacier collapsed in the Swiss Alps. It triggered a landslide. The landslide buried much of Blatten village in Valais canton. Residents had already evacuated. One person is missing. Recovery ...

According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...

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 ...

Please stop sending clothes, but give us money. That’s the message from the authorities in the devasted village of Blatten.

A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...

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 ...