The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that if the snowcapped volcano erupts, the impacts could include damage to aircraft from ash.

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

Alaska's largest city. Mount Spurr has two vents, or openings, in the Earth's crust from which lava, volcanic gas and other byproducts of volcanic activity escape. The vent at the highest point on ...

The mountain is about 14,410 feet high and is the highest volcanic peak in the US. Mount Rainier park has the most extensive alpine and glacial volcanic system outside of Alaska. There are plenty ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

Weiss, traveling to the top to capture a sunrise image of the park, situated his camera and tripod on a small ledge with nearly 4,000 vertical feet of drop to the Cracker Lake Basin to prepare for the ...

“Well, the mountain was out,” he said, referring to his morning flight that same day and the out-of-sight main attraction we hoped to witness on our 55-minute route through Alaska’s most ...

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The vent at the highest point on Spurr ... to a quarter-inch of ashfall throughout southcentral Alaska. Also, from 2004 to 2006, the mountain experienced "ice cauldron hydrothermal events ...

One area where that is not the case is District 1, which covers downtown Anchorage, as well as neighborhoods like Fairview, Government Hill and Mountain ... reports to the Alaska Public Offices ...