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—A number of trails in the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument will be closed on weekdays through 2027 now that crews are starting to update the tunnel at Spirit Lake near the site of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 5—The Windy Ridge Viewpoint remains a viable alternative for viewing the northern side of Mount St. Helens after a debris ...

PORTLAND – It will be years before people will be able to reach the views, trails and a visitor center at Mount St. Helens. Johnston Ridge, the site of a seasonal observatory and museum, as well as a ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot about Mount St. Helens. Much of the landscape around ...

Saturday marks the 44-year anniversary of Mount St. Helens' eruption in Washington. The blast on May 18, 1980, is the worst volcanic eruption in U.S. history, killing 57 people and spewing 520 million ...

The best place to enjoy the outdoors is in a National Park Service site. In the Pacific Northwest, Washington offers dr ...

On the morning of May 18, 1980, photographer Robert Landsburg hiked 7 miles from the summit of Mount St. Helens in the Cascades mountain range. As the lens of his camera viewed the snowy cap of the ...

Sunday marks 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state. The deadly eruption happened shortly after 8:30 a.m. on May 18, 1980, following months of small explosions and earthquakes.

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 ...