This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington's Mount St. Helens. The image is ...

Tiny by volcano standards. The Sutter Buttes are 10 miles wide and poke up 2,000 feet. In classic butte fashion, they are steep on the sides. Nearly all of the rocks out here (and a considerable ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to start raising a dam used to catch millions of tons of Mount St. Helens sediment that flows each year from the mountain into the Toutle, Cowlitz and Columbia ...

The sediment retention structure is seen on May 21. It was built in response to the Mount St. Helens eruption. (Henry Brannan/The Columbian) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to start raising a ...

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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 ...

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 Friday 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 ...

Roger del Moral sat on a plane headed back from Kentucky on May 18, 1980. Mount St. Helens had been in unrest since March 1980, and academics all over the PNW awaited the Cascade volcano’s eruption.

NEAR MT. RAINIER, Wash. — The destructive flow of volcanic debris, mud, and water unleashed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens destroyed more than 200 homes. These “lahars,” as they're called, ...

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 ...

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 ...