Spring Chinook salmon have been reintroduced to the upper North Fork Toutle River watershed in the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument for the first time since the 1980 eruption, according to ...

Photo Credit: iStock What was once a sediment-buried reach of Washington's North Fork Toutle River is now functioning as ...

Forty-four years after Mount St. Helens killed 57 people in the most destructive volcanic event in U.S. history, multiple ...

In a major discovery scientists has revealed new secrets about Europe's most active volcano "Mount Etna". Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the ways volcanoes are ...

Washington state drivers soon will be able to get a Mount St. Helens license plate! The license plates will help fund the Mount St. Helens Institute’s work at the volcano, including youth education ...

Washington state drivers soon will be able to add a Mount St. Helens license plate to their vehicles. But before the new plate is available to the public, the Mount St. Helens Institute will auction ...

The top of Mount St. Helens is visible from Washington State University Vancouver, seen here in April 2026. A new specialty license plate will be available through the state Department of Licensing ...

On a recent June day on upper Mount St. Helens, there was a tail flap, a splash, and a native species returned to its ancestral waters for the first time in four decades. Chinook salmon had thrived in ...

With the 45th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption on Sunday, the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center is wrapping up the first update to its exhibits since it was constructed in 1986.