Snowmobilers, including one with a serious leg injury, were rescued following an avalanche on Mount St. Helens on Feb. 17 ...

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Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of sediment still pour into the Cowlitz River each year.

The Columbia Theatre in Longview, Washington, is celebrating its centennial. Theater officials say the 1980 eruption of Mount ...

Likelihood: While Mount St. Helens is expected to erupt again in our lifetimes, "neither a large debris avalanche nor a major lateral blast like those of May 18, 1980 is likely now that a deep ...

The Volcano Rescue Team responded late last week after a skier suffered a leg injury on Mount St. Helens. Just after 11 a.m. April 4, the Volcano Rescue Team was notified about a skier on Mount St ...

St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried under millions of tons of lava, ash, mud, and avalanche debris. How could life ever ...

Then, on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted sending rock and debris down river valleys from the volcano. Ash flew 15 miles into the sky, and wind swept that across 22,000 square miles.