The Mount St. Helens visitor center is reopening its doors with the first major renovations since it opened in 1986. Starting on Saturday, the center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prior to ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – The Mount St. Helens Visitor Center is now open, showcasing updated exhibits and a new theater. The center closed last September for renovations. Visitors can explore a ...

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 ...

ST HELENS, Wash. — When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, hundreds of square miles surrounding the volcano were flattened. Scientists describe the destruction as “moonscaped,” and at the time, it was ...

SEATTLE — Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago when the sleeping giant woke up and erupted into Pacific Northwest history.

In 1980, a Washington mountain’s fiery blasts incinerated and flattened the landscape, sending forth mudflows of ash and splintered trees and wiping out entire communities. The 45th anniversary of ...

A debate is stirring in Southwest Washington over how to manage ongoing impacts from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. This year marks 45 years since that cataclysmic eruption. When the volcano ...