Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, little remains of the once-thriving mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania.picture alliance/dpa/picture alliance via Getty ...

Over the past few years, local author J.A. Stein has published novels set in medieval times and contemporary Schuylkill ...

Climate change is not just changing our atmosphere, it is changing the fabric of many rural towns nationwide. As the United States has moved to renewable sources of energy, it has strained the coal ...

PROSPERITY, Pa. — Jimmy Brock adjusts a device on his belt that provides oxygen in an emergency. It is the last piece of safety equipment he puts on before our descent into the Enlow Fork Mine for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the September evening inched along, the line of residents waiting their turn for the microphone held steady. Filing down the ...

Girardville, a tiny, past-its-prime coal town hidden in the Schuylkill County mountains, could be worth more dead than alive. Locals say a thick stretch of the Mammoth coal vein that minted the town’s ...

Today, little remains of the once-thriving mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania.picture alliance/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Over 60 years ago, Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a bustling coal ...