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It's official: The greatest Alpine skier in the history of the sport is Burke Mountain Academy alum Mikaela Shiffrin.Shiffrin set the World Cup record for career victories by winning a slalom race Saturday in Sweden, her 87th World cup win, and one that broke a tie with Ingemar Stenmark on the all-time list for first place finishes for men or women.

When Mount Ascutney ski resort went bankrupt over a decade ago, it threw nearby West Windsor into turmoil. So the town took a risk and bought the ski area in 2015. Residents formed a non-profit called Ascutney Outdoors to run it, and the move paid off.

Mikaela Shiffrin, 27, ties Lindsey Vonn's record for the most alpine World Cup wins for a woman. Shiffrin also has two Olympic gold medals and six world championships.

Count Megan Nick among the athletes with Vermont ties who returned from Beijing with some new hardware.Making her Winter Olympics debut, the Shelburne native took home the bronze in women’s aerials, a high-flying free skiing sport full of twists and flips.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle won the silver medal in the men's super-G at the Beijing winter games this month. It was almost 50 years, to the day, that his mom, Barbara Ann, won a gold medal in the women's slalom at the games in Japan. Cochran-Siegle is now back in Vermont, where his accomplishment is being properly celebrated by friends, family and even people he's never met.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle's Vermont family has sent six athletes to the Winter Olympics. His mom, Barbara Cochran, won gold in Sapporo, Japan, as an alpine ski racer in 1972.

On a cold afternoon, VPR's Josh Crane met Olympian John Morton to talk biathlon � that odd mashup of cross-country skiing and riflery � and the U.S. team's chase for that elusive Olympic medal.

We take an in-depth look at why local ski resorts are struggling with hiring and retaining employees amid the nationwide staffing shortage.

First, flying over summits to snap hundreds of aerial photos, then putting the puzzle of pictures together to create an image he'll paint with watercolor,�

More than a dozen employees at Sugarbush had their ski and snowboard gear stolen this week shortly after the mountain shuttered its operations due to the�