Though California is known worldwide for its sunshine, there’s only one city that holds the title of the Golden State’s ...

All of Oregon's ski areas are still closed as the mountains have little snow after the warmest November on record and ...

Beryl Rappaport, a microbiologist completing her Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and a team of researchers identified a new ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

The ice fields that give Washington’s Glacier Peak its name are disappearing, though few people may have noticed. Glacier Peak, the 10,541-foot high point of Snohomish County, is sometimes called ...

CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY — 'First, Mt. Saint Helens is NOT erupting.' That was the message from the National Weather Service office in Portland this morning. NWS says volcanic ash from when Mt. St ...

Residents of the Pacific Northwest often cast a wary eye toward Mount St. Helens, but airborne ash this week isn’t a sign of a new eruption. That’s according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which ...

Volcanic activity will mark the 31st time Kilauea has erupted since December. One of the most active volcanoes in the world is living up to its reputation as it gears up for another eruption. An ...

On July 8, Mount Rainier began to stir. Seismic activity occurs at all of the Pacific Northwest’s Cascade Volcanoes to some extent, but this time was different. What began as a few faint tremors soon ...

Earlier this month, Mount Rainier experienced its most powerful seismic swarm ever recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey. More than 1,000 earthquakes have been detected at the mountain since July 8 — ...

Scientists say an undersea volcano the size of a city off the coast of Oregon may erupt soon. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: Although researchers did predict the Axial Seamount would erupt ...

Researchers detected the largest Mount Rainier earthquake swarm on record. Over 400 small quakes have been located as of Friday and many more have been detected. The temblors have shown no evidence ...