When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours.

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had ...

Sometimes it is hard to compare the eruptions of remote volcano to potential blasts at more well-known volcanoes. I try to ...

Starting in October 2004 and ceasing in January 2008, a new lava dome was built up. The new dome did not rise above the rim of the crater created by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Instead, what he remembers is the sense of community around the lake before Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980. “The people that knew each other then, our grandkids are intermarried and are friends,” he ...

ST. HELENS Ore. (KPTV) - St. Helens police detectives are investigating a middle school teacher for alleged “criminal activity” involving students, they announced Thursday. This comes on the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Officials announced on Thursday the names of the people who have open sexual abuse and negligent misconduct cases at St. Helens High School and Middle School. The Oregon ...