ST HELENS, Wash. — When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, hundreds of square miles surrounding the volcano were flattened. Scientists describe the destruction as “moonscaped,” and at the time, it was ...

Sunday, May 18 marks 45 years since the disastrous eruption of Mount St. Helens. Fifty-seven people were killed and it remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. At 8:32 a.m. on May 18, ...

More than two years after Mount St. Helens erupted, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a national volcanic monument around the mountain. For most people, the Mount St. Helens National ...

To residents of a certain age, it almost seems like it was yesterday. But Sunday, remarkably, marks the 45th anniversary of a cataclysmic explosion on Mount St. Helens. In a matter of seconds on the ...

A common trait among first responders is the sense to run toward danger as everyone else is fleeing for their lives. On May 18, 1980, Don Prest, a Naches resident, was one of those heading into a ...

Lloyd Staats had an engineer's brain. He was quiet, fact-driven, unflappable, analytic, adaptable. Yet, as the Army Corps of Engineers man worked to remake the region's waterways after the 1980 ...

Following several recent rim failures, two cornice breaks and the death of an experienced climber on Mount St. Helens, the U.S. Forest Service is asking climbers to stay away from the rim and avoid ...

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 ...

Volcanoes are now more closely monitored. We have a good chance now of determining when a volcano becomes restless,” says Don Swanson, a volcanologist reflecting on the lessons learned from the 1980 ...