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The lake's deteriorating, manmade outflow tunnel that protects an estimated 50,000 people downstream from floods needs ...

This activity is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service under Grant No. 16-DG-11261952-008. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this ...

By Isabel Gil The Smith family referred to the back part of their property as “the wasteland.” It opens up to the North Fork ...

Crews are set to begin work Monday rebuilding the Spirit Lake Outlet Bridge on state Route 504, restoring an essential access point to the Mount St. Helens blast zone destroyed in a massive debris ...

Sunday marks 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state. The deadly eruption happened shortly after 8:30 a.m. on May 18, 1980, following months of small explosions and earthquakes.

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — When the first earthquakes occurred on Mount St. Helens on March 16, 1980, I was working as a meteorologist for the U.S. Forest Service at the Northwest Avalanche Center.

It’s been 45 years since an eruption occurred on the U.S. mainland. The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth spruce ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s move to hospice has led to recollections of his tenure as president and his diplomatic and humanitarian work. When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, blanketing Central ...

Fifty-seven people died when Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington on May 18, 1980 at 8:32 a.m. Autopsies showed that most of the people killed in the eruption likely died from asphyxiation after ...