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 ...

COWLITZ COUNTY, Wash. — Saturday, May 18 marks the 44th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. For the second year, visitors to Mount St. Helens won’t be able to drive to the closest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot about Mount St. Helens. Much of the landscape around ...

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 ...

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.

The story you're about to see is something truly special, because beneath the ash that fell from Mount St. Helens on May 18th, 1980, are clues to some mysteries that have never been fully solved. So ...