An airplane takes off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday morning, with Mount Rainier as a backdrop, in a ...

If you’re after a Washington hike with some epic views, grab your hiking poles and head to the Mount Fremont Lookout Trail!

A stratovolcano in Europe erupted on June 2 and sent tourists running for safety. What is the status of Washington's most ...

Rising 14,410 feet above the ocean, Mount Rainier can be seen from Seattle on a clear day, only a couple of hours away. With its cone-shaped peak, it’s an active volcano and one of the most glaciated ...

In late April, a century-old bridge near Mount Rainier closed permanently due to safety issues, cutting off access to popular ...

Longtimers know this Pierce County site as the setting for a 30-second commercial first aired in 1979, in which a solitary motorcycle sweeps by, heading toward Mount Rainier.

Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation. The top of Mount Rainier is no longer the top of Mount Rainier.

Concerns that Mount Rainier was awakening first materialized Wednesday afternoon when a meteorologist at KOMO, Seattle’s ABC affiliate, tweeted a video that appeared to show steam venting from ...

Rainier’s old ice cap peak, known as Columbia Crest, which stood 14,410 feet tall, has melted. Eric Gilbertson, a mountaineer and engineering professor at Seattle University, hiked to Mt.

The fifth, located less than 70 miles from Seattle, is Mount Rainier. "It's totally at a state of background activity, so we're not worried about Mount Rainier right now,” said Alex Iezzi ...

SEATTLE – The top of Mount Rainier is no longer the top of Mount Rainier. The frozen ice cap on top of Washington’s iconic mountain – recognized for generations as the tippy top – is ...