Thirty years (and one day) ago, Mount St. Helens blew its top. Or rather, its side. After months of heightened seismic activity, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake caused the flank of the mountain to suddenly ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Mount St. Helens’ Johnston Ridge Observatory will remain closed to the public until at least 2026 due to road repairs on Spirit Lake Highway, a Washington State Department of ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (KATU) — The Mount St. Helens Visitor Center on Spirit Lake Highway is set to undergo a significant makeover. According to officials, the renovations will focus on new exhibits and ...

COWLITZ COUNTY, Wash. — The U.S. Forest Service wants to keep history from repeating itself at Mount St. Helens. Work is about to begin to reduce the risk of flooding at the largest lake created by ...

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens. If you weren’t around in 1980, here is what happened: For generations, the picturesque, 9,677-foot peak was a ...

May 15—After 40 years, continued improvements are needed to support operations and maintenance of the Spirit Lake infrastructure that controls water levels in Spirit Lake, according to a news release ...

It was a quiet Sunday morning, at 8:32 a.m., 38 years ago when Mount St. Helens blew its top, sending tons of ash into the sky. The volcano had been quiet since the 1850s, but in 1980, geologists were ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (KATU) — The Mount St. Helens Visitor Center at Silver Lake celebrated its reopening to the public Saturday. It had been closed for 8 months to undergo renovations. While the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Andy Goodwin stationed himself last Saturday at the top of Mount St. Helens, where he usually spends several hours each week educating climbers about one of the Pacific Northwest’s ...