It was May 18, 1980, and I received a phone call from my husband, Cecil, a merchant mariner captain who had been at sea for…
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On the morning of May 18, 1980, research geologist Richard Waitt got a call from a Vancouver friend telling him a giant cloud was approaching…
Another eruption of Mount St. Helens is not only likely, it’s pretty much a certainty. But the combination of new instrumentation and decades of study…
The Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, state Highway 504, will remain closed for the time being, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. The road…
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…
There’s a two-story glass curtain inside the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and it’s etched with a name that holds weight in the history of Vancouver:…
Tired of seeing Mount Rainier on the vehicle in front of you? Clark County residents may soon be able to buy license plates featuring a…
Some dates become forever etched in history. Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Sept.…
Three volcano monitoring stations are scheduled to be installed on Mount Hood next week in what the U.S. Geological Survey says will be a big…