Michael Cairns flew a National Guard helicopter on a rescue and recovery mission to Mount St. Helens. His book, "Under the ...

Mount St. Helens erupted, killing dozens and forever changing how the US monitors earthquakes. The volcano is still active ...

Stunning, historic front-page coverage from The Oregonian reporters Les Zaitz and Steve Jenning reports the confusion and ...

Salem Towne, a pilot from Poulsbo, is finally releasing photos he took 45 years ago - moments after Mt. St. Helens erupted.

The 1980 blast remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in ... University of Idaho the day before and was preparing to begin a new chapter of my life. But Mount St. Helens had other plans.

Even if you haven’t been up to the Johnston Ridge Observatory near Mt. St. Helens, where one of the most puzzling photos of the volcano’s May 1980 eruption ... the mountain before it blew.

It wasn’t until the eruption of Mount St. Helens that scientists realized ... referring to one of the satellite cones of Mount Shasta. The landslide unleashed an estimated 45 cubic kilometers ...

"No one died in the eruption; however, several people in the Hat Creek Valley escaped just before their homes ... larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and dropped ash as far away ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...