Critics have characterized the transfer as a raid on the trust fund established by the 1977 Surface Mine Reclamation Act, the ...

Historic coal mining communities could lose hundreds of millions of dollars after a U.S. House bill pulls crucial funding for ...

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, ...

A huge pile of waste coal is being remined in Shamokin, Pa., and sent to area power plants. Pennsylvania is getting another $29 million in federal funding to clean up abandoned mines, as part of the ...

WINDSOR — Vestas-American Wind Technology reports that it has secured an order for 19 wind turbines from an East Coast power company for a project to repurpose a former coal mine in Pennsylvania into ...

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 ...

MOUNT CARMEL, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The US coal industry has been declining for decades, but that may change after a series of executive orders signed by President Trump. President Trump ...