MOUNT ST. HELENS -- After a week of promise and rumbling, the volcano gave a hint of its potential just before noon yesterday, suddenly sending an eruption of ashen steam skyward from a glacier crack ...

SEATTLE, Oct. 1 -- After a week of steadily increasing seismic rumbling, Mount St. Helens on Friday burped a tall column of steam and ash that officials said was probably not a precursor to a large, ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- Steam seeping from a fracture atop the lava dome in Mount St. Helens' crater and the mountain's first noteworthy seismic activity since 2004 have caught scientists' attention ...

SEATTLE - Magma that has been rising inside Mount St. Helens after weeks of earthquakes and steam eruptions has finally pushed its way to the surface, forming a new lava dome just behind the existing ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. - Part of the lava dome in Mount St. Helens' crater has risen 10 to 30 feet in the past day, on top of 250 feet in the past week, U.S. Geological Survey scientists said Friday.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Steam seeping from a fracture atop the lava dome in Mount St. Helens' crater and the mountain's first noteworthy seismic activity since 2004 have caught scientists' attention this ...