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 ...

The body of a missing grandmother was discovered four days after she fell into a sinkhole while looking for her cat in an ...

HARRISBURG, PA ... a large coal refuse pile south of the city of Shamokin. Westmoreland County Export: This project involves design engineering and permitting needed to close a mine opening ...

The US coal industry has been declining for decades, but that may change after a series of executive orders signed by President Trump. President ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania ... where mining dates to the late 1700s, coal was mined in nearly half of the state's 67 counties and there are at least 5,000 abandoned underground mines, leaving behind ...

Reed Johnson at his property in Clearfield County. Abandoned mine waste pollutes the nearby Little Anderson Creek. On a sunny afternoon in late February, Reed Johnson trudges through the slushy ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal ...

A Golden Retriever pup named Freddy is back home with his family in Pennsylvania after a frigid weeklong search that ended with his rescue from an abandoned coal pit Credit: AP Credit: AP ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania hiker had followed his dog off a mountain trail this week when he glanced toward a deep coal pit below and saw a tail move near a pile of rocks. Collin Leiby, an ...