Strong winds across parts of Washington state have kicked up volcanic ash deposited during the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in one of the most powerful natural disasters in U.S. history. The explosion leveled forests, claimed dozens of lives, and reshaped the Pacific Northwest ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic rocks, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious threats to ...

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens led to better seismic monitoring, increasing seismometers in the Pacific Northwest from a dozen to over 700. Mount St. Helens environment recovering 45 years ...

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 ...

The 1980 blast remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. More than 300 miles from the volcano, cities like Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho, were covered in ash. A 23-year-old ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — Mount St. Helens erupted 40 years ago, on May 18, 1980, sending a plume of ash and smoke into the sky and claiming 57 lives on the ground. But for months leading up the ...

Mount Saint Helens is the biggest volcanic eruption in United States history, and this weekend marked 45 years. The eruption and the following landslide killed 57 people, destroyed 200 homes, and ...

A debate is stirring in Southwest Washington over how to manage ongoing impacts from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

EUGENE, Ore. - Mount St. Helens caught science a little by surprise. A volcano hadn't erupted in the contiguous United States (U.S. excluding Alaska and Hawaii) since California's Lassen Peak in early ...