The Cowlitz County coroner has named the Seattle woman who jumped off a bridge along Spirit Lake Memorial Highway Sunday east ...

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens or Mount Hood that tend to explode ...

A 26-year-old Seattle woman died Sunday after jumping from a bridge on the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway near Mount St. Helens, according to the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office. The woman sent a text ...

Mount St. Helens Institute recently announced that Abi Groskopf and Alyssa Hoyt began serving as co-executive directors Jan. 1.

In memory of former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday, we are rerunning this history column documenting his visit to ...

Registration is still open for the Mount St. Helens Institute's 12-week Volcano Naturalist Program, which runs Feb. 4 to April 29. Participants in this program will explore diverse aspects of the ...

One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried ...

On May 18th, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted killing 57 people and changing the way residents of the Northwest viewed the volcano in their midst. For the last 40 years, The Columbian has written ...

In a surprise upset, incumbent Daniel Ortega was ousted by challenger Violeta Chamoro in a well-run election Evans described ...

Some of the largest volcanic eruptions on the planet have occurred at Yellowstone National Park, and scientists have ...

Feliks Banel remembers where he was when President Jimmy Carter visited the Pacific Northwest following the devastation of the Mt. St. Helens eruption in May 1980. Feliks shared the story on ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, blanketing Central Washington — including the Yakima Valley — in volcanic ash, then-President Carter made a trip to the mountain to survey the damage ...