In October 1925, the Pottsville Free Public Library was turned into an art gallery with an exhibit dedicated to life in the ...

Grove City Historical Society is partnering with Lackawanna County to offer an immersive 360-degree mine tour for future ...

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

Pennsylvania’s largest coal company on Tuesday completed its merger with the nation’s second-largest coal producer, creating ...

Joshua Mock, 34, suffered multiple blunt impact and crush injuries, according to Somerset County Chief Deputy Coroner Alexis ...

A West Virginia and Virginia lawmaker will help co-chair the relaunched Congressional Coal Caucus for the 119th Congress. U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va, announced Thursday that she would co-chair the ...

A Windber man was killed Friday afternoon in a Somerset County mining incident, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

CONSOL Energy and Arch Resources, which operated several mines in West Virginia, officially merged on Tuesday and then released a statement on the underground fire in Barbour County.

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Kennedy Band, Contemporary and Jazz; John Stanky & The Coal Miners ... Closing One of the Last Anthracite Deep Mines in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 2021; Presenters: Chris Murley, Underground ...

He experienced black damp in a Pennsylvania coal mine, and came across unused dynamite. At one point he went a little too far, nearly falling to his death down a crevasse in New York.