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 ...

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.

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 ...

Axial Seamount, a volcano hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, may be a problem in the near future. This underwater ...

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

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.

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

Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to ...

Per the Oregon Journal in 1957, the mid-1950s saw a second rush at Tabor, with locals prospecting for uranium but finding ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. (KATU) — A skier sustained a knee injury while descending Mt. St. Helens on Saturday, April 19, prompting a rescue operation by the Volcano Rescue Team (VRT). The incident ...

Travelers along Interstate 5 can glimpse these unusual hills and ridges, often mistaking them for volcanic cones or natural terrain. It wasn’t until the eruption of Mount St. Helens that ...