One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal system in 1899, shortly after its last eruption. Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John ...

In a discovery that has literally changed the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Rainier—Washington state's towering icon—has been found to be shorter than previously known. A local ...

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 ...

Mt. Rainier is shorter than we all thought … 10 feet shorter. New GPS measurements measure the new peak, a rocky patch along the Southwest rim, at 14,399.6 feet. Rainier’s old ice cap peak ...

One of the two U.S. Navy aviators killed last month when their fighter jet crashed near Mount Rainier will have a procession on Monday through Western Washington and to a funeral home in Oak Harbor.

LONGVIEW — The Rainier Oregon Historical Museum plans to hold a groundbreaking ceremony May 6 in the organization’s new space near Rainier City Park. People can park at the nearby Rainier ...

A Navy aircraft that crashed east of Mount Rainier in Washington state Tuesday evening has been found, but the search for the two crew members who were on board was ongoing, the Navy said.

The wreckage of a Navy jet that crashed on Tuesday afternoon was located on a mountainside east of Mount Rainier in Washington, according to officials. The U.S. Navy said on Wednesday evening that ...

The whereabouts of two Navy crew members remained unknown after their fighter jet crashed Tuesday east of Mount Rainier in Washington state. A U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler was on a routine training ...

The US Navy is searching for two crew members after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington during a training flight on Tuesday. A US Navy EA-18G Growler aircraft — assigned to ...