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 ...

By unearthing microbes and fungi, these rodents helped save an ecosystem almost decimated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Mount St. Helens roared awake 44 years ago on May 18, 1980 with a deadly eruption. The northern facing explosion sent ash and debris across the Pacific Northwest after ...

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 ...

Sunday marks 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted, casting clouds of black smoke and ash hundreds of miles into the Inland Empire. The eruption on May 18, 1980, claimed 57 lives and caused ...

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’ ...

The eruption triggered mudslides, an explosion, and plumes of ash that did enormous damage. The death of 57 people led to large changes in how the US monitors and prepares for eruptions. On May 18, ...

“In front of me was the eruption up in the sky, and in the living room behind me was the news broadcast telling us what was going on closer up there,” Kemery recalls of that infamous day in Northwest ...

In the shadow of Mount St. Helens’ summit, 20 girls spent a week studying pumice, ash and lava at a GeoGirls camp. The famous Washington volcano served as a base camp for middle and high school girls ...

It was 45 years ago today when Mount St. Helens erupted, triggering the biggest landslide in Earth’s recorded history and creating an ash cloud that reached across the country. John Yang looks back at ...