May 16, 2020, 7:30pm Newsletter
Greg Wallace secretly hoped the aftermath of volcanic ash was covered under his Subaru wagon’s 50,000-mile warranty. Read story
May 9, 2020, 5:59am Clark County News
The Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, state Highway 504, will remain closed for the time being, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Read story
May 8, 2020, 1:52pm Latest News
Developed recreation sites in national forests should start to reopen some later this month, but the Johnston Ridge Observatory near Mount St. Helens will remain closed during the 40th anniversary of the volcano’s eruption for the first time since the facility opened in 1993. Read story
May 4, 2020, 6:02am Latest News
Humans rarely get a chance to see rivers arise and fade away. But four decades ago at Mount St. Helens, scientists watched one die and be reborn in the same day. Read story
April 27, 2020, 6:00am Latest News
Castle Rock sophomore Logan Sutera has long known about the significance of Mount St. Helens. But after participating in research on the mountain, he said he’s learned that there’s far more to the neighborhood volcano than meets the eye. Read story
April 25, 2020, 6:02am Clark County News
While we journalists have been mostly thinking about covering the novel coronavirus and all of its implications, we are also thinking about how to cover the 40th anniversary of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens. Read story
April 20, 2020, 6:05am Latest News
Retired contract logger Daniel Stanley has some unpleasant memories of salvaging the forests splintered by Mount St. Helens, and he likens the experience to living with the coronavirus. Read story
April 13, 2020, 6:05am Latest News
The sounds of gusting winds, chirping birds and gurgling streams surrounded John Bishop as he and two students hiked to a cluster of willow trees near the south shore of Spirit Lake on a hot day last July. Read story
April 8, 2020, 7:56pm Northwest
As the May 18 anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption approaches -- and while Washingtonians are cooped up due to the coronavirus pandemic -- the U.S. Geological Survey is posting daily on social media about what was happening at the volcano on each day 40 years ago. Read story
April 5, 2020, 6:02am Northwest
For decades, researchers have wondered why Spirit Lake has such enormous fish, even though it apparently contains little for them to eat. Read story