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 ...

Is it getting ready to rock? Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach Montana, has been showing major signs of constant activity ...

Wind gusts that stirred up ash around Mount St. Helens in Washington have people asking: Is the sleeping giant awake? The National Weather Service in Portland responded to reports of volcanic ash ...

May 18 marks the 45th anniversary of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington. The blast in 1980 killed dozens of people and reshaped the volcanic peak in the Cascade ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Thirty-five years ago, Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state erupted, killing 57 people, blasting more than 1,300 feet off the top and raining volcanic ash for miles around.

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 ...

Mount Saint Helens is the biggest volcanic eruption in United States history, and this weekend marked 45 years. The eruption and the following landslide killed 57 people, destroyed 200 homes, and ...

Everybody saw the eruption coming. Nobody could have predicted how bad it would be. The devastating eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, was a global event in more ways than one: As ash from ...

MT. ST. HELENS, Wash — Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago Sunday when the sleeping giant woke up and erupted into Pacific ...

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens led to better seismic monitoring, increasing seismometers in the Pacific Northwest from a dozen to over 700. Mount St. Helens environment recovering 45 years ...

Strong winds across parts of Washington state have kicked up volcanic ash deposited during the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.