Deciding where to travel in a state with so many under-the-radar gems like Washington isn't easy. But this small city ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. (KATU) — The Volcano Rescue Team is asking hikers to plan if they head out to hike Mt. St. Helens. The rescue team says they have had six separate rescue missions over the past ...

• About 14,500 people a year climb Mount St. Helens though the vast majority — about 13,000 — do so in the summer. • About 1,500 people climb the volcano during the winter season of Nov. 1 to March 31 ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot about Mount St. Helens. Much of the landscape around ...

Clifton Perkins had heard that the road to the Johnston Ridge Observatory was open, so he brought his family there from Puyallup, Wash., on Presidents' Day. When the family encountered a closed gate 9 ...

Brittany Fintel says she really thought she was dead the moment she slipped. A woman survived the nearly impossible after falling down hundreds of feet while climbing on Mount St. Helens. Brittany ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two hikers and their three dogs were rescued after getting lost during an outing to Coldwater Lake on the eastern border of Cowlitz County near Mt. St. Helens in Washington, ...

There’s something magnetic about volcanoes. While some are far too dangerous to approach, others invite you right up to the rim, offering front-row seats to nature’s raw energy. From Hawaii’s fiery ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. – More than eight months after he went missing, officials confirmed they found the remains of a young Japanese man who set out to hike Mount St. Helens. Yosuke Onishi, 26, of Japan, ...

Saturday marks the 44-year anniversary of Mount St. Helens' eruption in Washington. The blast on May 18, 1980, is the worst volcanic eruption in U.S. history, killing 57 people and spewing 520 million ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — 42-year-old Roscoe "Rocky" Shorey from Washougal was found dead at the bottom of Mount St. Helens crater last Saturday. It was assumed that Shorey had not survived the 1,200-foot ...