Mount St. Helens is ... whose title was Baron St. Helens. Hot ash causes forest fires. Snow melt from the top of the mountain causes floods. Volcanic ash spreads across the Northwest.

A towering plume of ash rises in the distance of the photo, swirling with menace and threat, lightning arcing within it. As ...

For many people who lived through the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens, it is the biggest news story of their lifetimes.

A teenager when he began scuba diving in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, he remembers the lake as it was before the May 1980 eruption, before the top 1,300 feet of the volcano—more than three ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists are baffled as to where Mount St. Helens gets its lava from. Though the volcano is part of a cluster of volcanoes known as the North American Cascade Arc ...

“High rates of seismicity, interpreted as recharge, have been observed in the past at Mount St. Helens and at other volcanoes ...

The morning of March 16, 1980, marked the end of 123 years of peaceful solace on the slopes of Mount St. Helens as a series ...

When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It was clear the land would take a long time to recover from the eruption.

The first event is Wednesday with Alysa Adams, lead interpretive specialist of the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center.

After nearly two years, the camera at the site of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption is back online.

Mount St. Helens is located in Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon, and 95 miles south of Seattle. It is administered by the National Forest Service, not the National Park ...