Visitors to Mount St. Helens will be able to drive close to the volcano this weekend.
Visitors to Mount St. Helens will be able to drive close to the volcano this weekend.
The state Transportation Department is reopening the Spirit Lake Highway today. It was closed by snow in January.
The highway takes visitors to the Johnston Ridge Observatory, where they can look into the crater. The observatory reopens for the season on Sunday.
The Associated Press
Highway 260 near Connell closed for several hours Friday night while police investigated a serious traffic crash.
Initial reports were that a vehicle collided with an all-terrain vehicle about 5:30 p.m. near the intersection of Highway 260 and Highway 17 near Buehler Lane, which is about four miles east of the Connell. The highway reopened around 9 p.m.
The Washington State Patrol and Connell Police Department investigated. No other details were available.
The Transportation Department has reopened Chinook Pass.
A semi-truck crash on Highway 14 near Paterson early Saturday limited traffic for hours on the roadway.
Washington State Patrol troopers said the crash happened around 2 a.m. when the semi rolled and blocked the westbound lane a few miles east of Paterson.
No one was hurt in the crash. The highway was completely reopened about 7:30 a.m.
Work on the blue bridge will slow traffic today and Wednesday on Highway 395.
The state is placing LED lighting, which it says is longer lasting and more energy efficient, on the bridge.
The state Department of Transportation will close the Lewis Street on-ramp and close the highway's right southbound lane between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. today.
GLACIER - Mount Baker Highway east of Glacier reopened Friday, Dec. 21, after state Department of Transportation crews finished clearing the 175 trees that had toppled onto the road because of recent wet, snowy and windy weather.
"It was a real team effort. We had 14 guys up there," Bronlea Mishler, DOT spokeswoman, said Friday of the effort that led to the 4 p.m. reopening. "A lot of work, 175 trees in the course of three whole days, that's amazing."
That, in turn, will allow Mt. Baker Ski Area to reopen Saturday in full operation from both base areas, starting at 9 a.m.
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