The warning did not arrive as a single dramatic sign but as a slow distortion of a familiar peak. As the north side of Mount St. Helens swelled outward in the spring of 1980, scientists watched a ...

Mount St. Helens, located in Skamania County, Washington, is one of the most active volcanoes in the Cascade Range. Famous for its horseshoe-shaped crater formed after the 1980 eruption, it stands at ...

Western Washington leaders are monitoring the Cowlitz River as heavy rain pushes decades-old Mount St. Helens sediment downstream, heightening flood risks. Officials warn that growing sediment buildup ...

CASTLE ROCK, Wash. — City and county leaders across Cowlitz County are raising alarms about escalating flood risks along the Cowlitz River, warning that sediment from Mount St. Helens continues to ...

Leaders around Cowlitz County said that sediment from Mount St. Helens worsened flooding along the Cowlitz River and called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to start dredging it — a request the ...

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 ...

That came after scientists received reports of a large plume rising above the volcano, which turned out to be volcanic ash from the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. “It kind of looks like a brownish ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...