The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum will conduct a Knox Mine Disaster Commemoration 2 p.m. Saturday as part of ...

Video captured by a neighbor showed repeated bursts of light and loud pops. "We actually thought it was a gunfight," one ...

Probably the quickest way for genealogists to find those records of ancestors is to contact and join the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. Located at 57 N. Franklin St. in Wilkes-Barre, it ...

A memorial in honor of the 12 Sago miners who lost their lives was placed by the historic Covered Bridge in Philippi. Three of the men who died in the accident were from Barbour County. (Photo ...

The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave utilities more time to tackle toxic coal ash. By Lisa Friedman and Maxine ...

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Eighth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. BELLE VERNON, Pa.—Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela ...

The work life of the 37 miners who lost their lives in an explosion at the Robena Mine 63 years ago would still be all too recognizable to miners today, said Michael Phillippi. “I’ve listened to ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — The history of much of northeastern Pennsylvania is coming to life through artwork. An exhibit at the University of Scranton takes us to the time when coal was king. Jon Meyer got a ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, West Virginia — Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Earlier this month, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of ...

Stacey Magda of Mountain Watershed Association stands near where the portal to the Rustic Ridge #2 mine would be built near Donegal, Pa. Stacey Magda stands on the side of a country road in ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

A rescue crew in West Virginia recovered the body of a worker days after he was trapped inside a flooded coal mine, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced on Thursday, Nov. 13. Morrisey identified the coal ...