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’s nearly 200-year history reads like a rollercoaster of ups and downs in the Schuylkill County anthracite region.

Experience the thrill of exploring an underground coal mine in Pennsylvania, a bucket-list adventure full of history.

Homer City Generating Station's remaining smokestack, April 3, 2025. The site will be cleared for a natural gas power plant and data center. On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down ...

Have you ever heard of a town where the ground beneath your feet is literally on fire? Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a bustling mining community, but today it stands nearly empty because of an ...

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 ...

Girardville in Schuylkill County is a once-proud coal town that's lost its reason to exist. Can something new rise from the dust?

Coal companies framed these changes as modern necessities. In 1929, the president of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company (P&RC&I) explained declining production not as a crisis of ...