Saturday marks 44 years since the disastrous eruption of Mount St. Helens. It remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. At 8:32 a.m. on May 18, 1980, an earthquake triggered the largest ...

Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...

Mount St. Helens in Washington State was once the "Mount Fuji of America"—admired for its symmetrical cone shape similar to Japan's highest peak. It was a popular Pacific Northwest destination, ...

Communities downstream from Mount St. Helens face ongoing risks as sediment continues to move through the river system, ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV/Gray News) - Mount St. Helens, which notoriously erupted in 1980, has been showing signs of increased seismic activity lately, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It’s ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — Over the past three months, there have been over 400 reported earthquakes at Mount St. Helens, but researchers at the Cascade Volcano Observatory said Wednesday the elevated ...

About 400 earthquakes have rumbled under Mount St. Helens since mid-July, the largest chain of shakes since the volcano finished erupting in 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey reported last week. Small ...

So you want to climb a mountain. Scratch that — a volcano. For many, especially those living in the Pacific Northwest, climbing Mount St. Helens is a great way to dip your toes into mountaineering.