290 miles away, it's still hard to imagine the ash from Mount St. Helens reaching Spokane but it didn't take much longer after the eruption on the morning of May 18th, 1980. Check this Spokesman video - originally published for the 30th anniversary in 2010…
One of the largest Superfund sites in the country, Bunker Hill, is located not too far east from Spokane in the Upper Coeur d’Alene Basin. For about 100 years, beginning in the 1880s, the Silver Valley was leading the nation in the production of silver,…