Since the announcement of the layoffs in April, 2025, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have pressured Health and Human ...

The House passed a bill to repurpose $500 million meant for cleaning up coal country’s environmental and safety hazards.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would redirect $500 million intended for cleaning up abandoned coal mines.

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...

At its peak, the Homer City power plant employed hundreds of people and could deploy enough to power 2 million homes. As the ...

More than 170 federal staffers working to protect miners from explosions and deadly diseases were reinstated this week.

SAGO, W.Va (WDTV) - Friday marks 20 years since a mining disaster rocked a small Upshur County community. On January 2nd of 2006, the world’s attention was on the community of Sago. A mine explosion ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — The history of much of northeastern Pennsylvania is coming to life through artwork. An exhibit at the University of Scranton takes us to the time when coal was king. Jon Meyer got a ...

In one long, musical sentence, Krivak (The Bear) unspools the luminous story of Ondro, a son of Slovak immigrants and the only survivor of a 1929 Pennsylvania coal mine disaster. The narrative traces ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

The body of Steve Lipscomb, a 38-year-old father and veteran coal miner, who had been trapped underground in the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia for five days, was recovered Thursday morning, ...