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 ...

COWLITZ COUNTY, Wash. — It’s been a busy few days as workers start the process of constructing a temporary fix to a massive problem. Work began on Monday to repair the damage done to State Route 504, ...

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 ...

LONGVIEW — Two months after a destructive landslide wiped out a bridge leading to the Johnston Ridge Observatory on Mount St. Helens, owners of the vehicles that had been rescued from the visitor ...

Two months after a destructive landslide wiped out a bridge leading to the Johnston Ridge Observatory on Mount St. Helens, owners of the vehicles that had been rescued from the visitor center happily ...

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 ...

Even with Mount St. Helens’ most popular tourist spot now closed, young students have been up at the mountain ready to learn. Some engaged in a discussion about volcanic eruptions. Others prepared to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...