Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 5—The Windy Ridge Viewpoint remains a viable alternative for viewing the northern side of Mount St. Helens after a debris ...

PORTLAND – It will be years before people will be able to reach the views, trails and a visitor center at Mount St. Helens. Johnston Ridge, the site of a seasonal observatory and museum, as well as a ...

The United States Forest Service has begun considering options for what to do with a 40-year-old tunnel built at Spirit Lake in the aftermath of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The tunnel — quite ...

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 ...

In 1980, a Washington mountain’s fiery blasts incinerated and flattened the landscape, sending forth mudflows of ash and splintered trees and wiping out entire communities. The 45th anniversary of ...