{"id":66897,"date":"2026-02-20T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/officials-investigate-deadly-california-avalanche-for-possible-criminal-negligence\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:04:52","slug":"officials-investigate-deadly-california-avalanche-for-possible-criminal-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/officials-investigate-deadly-california-avalanche-for-possible-criminal-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials investigate deadly California avalanche for possible criminal negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada county sheriff said investigation includes learning why the ski trip was not cancelled by the guide company<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating whether any criminal negligence was involved in the deadly avalanche that swept California\u2019s Lake Tahoe this week, which killed at least eight skiers and their guides while returning from a three-day backcountry skiing trip.<\/p>\n<p>The Nevada county sheriff\u2019s office said on Friday said that they notified the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha), which regulates workplace safety, of the active investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/california-avalanche-investigation-criminal-negligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada county sheriff said investigation includes learning why the ski trip was not cancelled by the guide company Authorities are investigating whether any criminal negligence was involved in the deadly avalanche that swept California\u2019s Lake Tahoe this week, which killed at least eight skiers and their guides while returning from a three-day backcountry skiing trip. &#8230; <a title=\"Officials investigate deadly California avalanche for possible criminal negligence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/officials-investigate-deadly-california-avalanche-for-possible-criminal-negligence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Officials investigate deadly California avalanche for possible criminal negligence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}