Nine Pennsylvania coal miners who were trapped for three days in a flooded mine traveled one-by-one to safety today in a cramped yellow rescue cage hauled up through a 26-inch (66-cm) wide rescue ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

Barnesboro merged with another small coal-mining town, Spangler ... “Barnesboro is the only town in all of Pennsylvania with fewer than 4,000 people that had an actual synagogue,” Bowman said. “So the ...

Restoring Both Land and Lives Pennsylvania sits atop the largest inventory of abandoned coal mines in the U.S., with nearly 288,000 acres left degraded from past mining activities. These scars on ...

The largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania recently became the latest to announce its retirement plans, prompting questions about its future use and highlighting the debate over the state’s ...

Grove City Historical Society is partnering with Lackawanna County to offer an immersive 360-degree mine tour for future ...

A Windber man was killed Friday afternoon in a Somerset County mining incident, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her ... drop into a damp, dark hole where coal mining ended seven decades ago. After overnight snowfall left a thin coating on the ground ...

PA Media The exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum aims to reflect what was happening in all the different coalfields during the dispute "It's quite shocking, even today, after 40 years ...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of the Grove City Historical Society to the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour in Scranton.