The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to start raising a dam used to catch millions of tons of Mount St. Helens sediment that flows each year from the mountain into the Toutle, Cowlitz and Columbia ...

If you’re feeling antsy about today’s divisional game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers, you’re not alone. Even Mount Saint Helens is on pins and needles. The mountain’s parody ...

Mount St. Helens continued to reveal its inner self yesterday as additional glowing lava pushed to the surface in the volcano's crater. The hot rocks -- incandescent and solid, not ropy, red liquid ...

A hazy cloud that emerged over the active volcano was the result of high winds rather than a new eruption. By Amy Graff and Soumya Karlamangla On the morning of May 18, 1980, the most destructive ...

Some Pacific Northwesterners woke Tuesday to an unusual sight: A smoky haze shrouded Mount St. Helens, the large, active stratovolcano in Washington state that erupted catastrophically in 1980. But a ...

Mount St. Helens looked like it might be erupting again. Commercial pilots flying in the area Tuesday reported clouds of fine volcanic ash rising into the air above the collapsed dome of the Cascades’ ...

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 ...

For a moment, it seemed like a blast from the past: a plume over Mount St. Helens on Tuesday looked like the volcano might be erupting again. But fortunately, this was not an eruption — just a ...

Some Pacific Northwesterners woke Tuesday to an unusual sight: A smoky haze shrouded Mount St. Helens, the large, active stratovolcano in Washington state that erupted catastrophically in 1980. But a ...

On the morning of May 18, 1980, the most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history killed 57 people in Washington state. The enormous column of ash that was unleashed by Mount St. Helens has been ...