Eckley Miners’ Village in Pennsylvania feels like stepping into a piece of living history. It’s a small place tucked deep in ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...

Completion of reclamation of a former coal mining site dating to the 1870s in North Scranton will allow for commercial or industrial development on a vacant 8-acre segment, according to a public ...

Digging crews resumed work early Thursday in the effort to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine. Fewer than a dozen ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

The "Ashland in Autumn" event delighted visitors with mine tours, steam train rides, and live polka music in Schuylkill ...

Nearly 20 years after a mine fire ignited under Centralia, Pa., residents who still lived in the town had a dilemma on their hands: should they take a $25 million federal buyout or try to dig up part ...

Chris Hacker of Heritage Underground Lighting began exploring caves in his youth and this hobby quickly evolved into an ...

Mine subsidence has caused billions of dollars in damage in the U.S. In Pennsylvania, where mining dates to the late 1700s, coal was mined in almost half of the state's 67 counties and there are at ...