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 ...

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 ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — Mount St. Helens erupted 40 years ago, on May 18, 1980, sending a plume of ash and smoke into the sky and claiming 57 lives on the ground. But for months leading up the ...

It was the deadliest volcano eruption in U.S. history, killing 57 people. KING 5 later produced a documentary of the historic event called, "The Mountain Erupts," showing what it was like in the hours ...

WASHINGTON, USA — Despite the clouds covering the mountain Sunday, visitors walked through exhibits at the Science and Learning Center at Coldwater, which reopened for the season on Saturday, May 17.

MT. ST. HELENS, Wash. -- No, Mt. St. Helens is not erupting, but to many in Washington and northern Oregon, it sure looked like the volcano had suddenly reawakened Tuesday afternoon as strong winds ...

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 ...

MT. ST. HELENS, Wash — For many people who lived through the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens, it is the biggest news story of their lifetimes. 45 years ago, the mountain that had been rumbling for ...

ST HELENS, Wash — Engineers who spent the days and years following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens working on the recovery of the region, returned Tuesday to check in on some of their work.

That came after scientists received reports of a large plume rising above the volcano, which turned out to be volcanic ash from the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. “It kind of looks like a brownish ...

No, Mount St. Helens is not erupting. What you are seeing in the Pacific Northwest today is actually remnants of an event nearly 50 years ago. According to the National Weather Service, old volcanic ...