A bill aimed at averting another government shutdown this month would divert $500 million for states and tribal governments ...

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) - At least another full day of digging will be needed to find a woman who is believed to have been swallowed by a sinkhole behind a restaurant in Westmoreland County, ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — As rescue efforts have turned to recovery amid the search for a missing woman who fell through a sinkhole in Unity Township, search teams fear the abandoned mine property ...

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to ...

Continuing a tradition that started in 1953, the King Coal Show will bring people from the area to celebrate Southwestern Pennsylvania’s coal mining history. This is the 70th year for the annual ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to batteries and catalysts for chemical reactions. Since the 1980s, a race has ...

Kenny Pollard, 75, holds a photo in his home from a vacation that he and his wife, Elizabeth, took to Clearwater Beach, Fla., approximately 10 years ago. Law enforcement members watch as rescue ...