Have you heard of a town that’s been burning underground for over 60 years? Deep beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a coal mine fire still rages, turning a once-bustling mining town into one of ...

In 1959, miners in Pennsylvania faced a nightmare when the Susquehanna River broke into an underground coal mine. Water ...

The Knox Mine Disaster claimed the lives of 12 miners. Rail cars were dropped into the whirlpool created by the Knox Mine Disaster in an effort to plug the hole. Workers search for survivors of the ...

A data center has been proposed at the site of a former coal mine in Greene County, Pennsylvania. According to reporting by ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

TREMONT, Pa. (AP) - A coal mine explosion killed a Pennsylvania miner Monday, but four others were able to escape, authorities said. The blast happened at the R&D Coal Co. anthracite mine in ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US ...

MARGUERITE, Pa. - A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A coal mine operator who was fighting record fines issued to his business after a fatal accident committed suicide at one of his mines. David S. Himmelberger, owner of the R&D ...