Planning is underway for a northeastern Pennsylvania section of the September 11th National Memorial Trail that is designed to connect users to — not just through — local communities. Two public ...

Pottsville nestled in Schuylkill County offers living costs that actually respect your wallet. This former coal mining town has kept its prices reasonable while the world went crazy. Grocery shopping ...

A fire that won't stop. The landscape of a horror film. A legendary demon. Spooky isn't just a seasonal fad at these U.S.

In 1962, a coal mine fire began beneath the small town of Centralia, Pennsylvania — and it’s still burning today. What ...

Explore these abandoned Pennsylvania coal towns where history lingers. Silent streets, lost stories, and haunting industrial ...

Toddi Steelman is proud to be a coal miner’s daughter. “I grew up in a small coal-mining town in northern West Virginia and spent all of my time outside,” Steelman says. “We were definitely free-range ...

Escape the rush and chaos of daily life (or just enjoy a relaxing weekend) with a trip to this hidden mountain gem located a ...

Mike Gaval looks out from the Gilberton coal-fired power plant down the valley to Mahanoy City, the town he grew up in, and up the hill to the wind turbines spinning on the horizon.

Frac-outs are relatively rare, but Pennsylvania’s hundreds of thousands of abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells make them ...

The Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., hosted the first of its series of mine town visits in ...

After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs. For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the ...

The Trump administration will auction off coal leases on federal lands in four U.S. states in the coming days, a key test of mining industry interest in its efforts to revive a sector in decline. The ...