MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — Early Tuesday morning, a small group of outdoor adventurers ascended a foot path toward Johnston Ridge Observatory, now dark, cold and desolate, to gather ...

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 ...

So you want to climb a mountain. Scratch that — a volcano. For many, especially those living in the Pacific Northwest, climbing Mount St. Helens is a great way to dip your toes into mountaineering.

Later this summer, the Mount St. Helens Institute will offer guided hikes featuring up-close views of the glacier and the inside of the crater. The Crater Glacier View Climb takes participants close ...

May 26—Fifteen volunteers with the Mount St. Helens Institute on Tuesday hiked a 10-mile round trip to the Johnston Ridge Observatory for "important USDA Forest Service equipment that was stranded" by ...

The Mount St. Helens Hiking Club typically holds several hikes each month. Anyone interested in the hikes is welcome. For details and the meeting place for carpooling, contact the hike leader listed ...

Clifton Perkins had heard that the road to the Johnston Ridge Observatory was open, so he brought his family there from Puyallup, Wash., on Presidents' Day. When the family encountered a closed gate 9 ...

The office is asking for dozens of new prosecutor positions to keep up with a caseload that Prosecuting Attorney Leesa Manion describes as "crushing." Jury awards $28M to family of woman killed in ...

Cowlitz and Skamania sheriff's offices are looking for a missing hiker. Twenty-six-year-old Yosuke Onishi is from Japan. He set out to hike Mount St. Helens on Nov. 27 and hasn't been heard from since ...