Representative Nick Begich said he intervened to block the lease termination for the building housing the Alaska Volcano ...

The Alaskan Volcano Observatory has shared new images of plumes of gas streaming out of Mount Spurr, which scientists suspect ...

Evidence of elevated volcanic activity indicate eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could happen within weeks or months, federal officials say.

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.

Mount Spurr has been showing signs of an eruption since last year, but scientists think one is even more imminent.

24, 2024, in Alaska. (Wyatt Mayo/Alaska Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File) (Wyatt Mayo) ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of ...

The August 1992 eruption caused the Anchorage airport to close for 20 hours due to the wind and ash event that accompanied the eruption. MORE: Mile-deep underwater volcano could erupt off West ...

In the days since scientists warned that Mount Spurr, Anchorage’s closest volcano, is likely to erupt within “the next few weeks to months,” Southcentral Alaska residents have snapped into ...

According to the latest update by the Alaska Volcano Observatory steam was observed rising from the summit on March 26. A ...

Mount Spurr in Alaska is likely to erupt soon. So people are buying goggles and masks to protect themselves from ash — and also pet versions to protect their dogs.

It is an 11,070-foot tall, ice- and snow-covered volcano roughly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage. Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years.

Mount Spurr in Alaska is likely to erupt soon. So people are buying goggles and masks to protect themselves from ash — and also pet versions to protect their dogs.