The unassuming tan brick building in McDade Park might not look like a time machine from the outside, but step through those doors and you’re instantly transported to an era when coal was king and the ...

Eckley Miners’ Village in Pennsylvania feels like stepping into a piece of living history. It’s a small place tucked deep in ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey says crews have found the body of a coal miner who went missing when a mine flooded in West Virginia.

In the heart of Scranton, Pennsylvania sits a tan brick building that holds the gritty, fascinating story of how rocks that burn built America. The Anthracite Heritage Museum might sound like a snooze ...

Have you ever heard of a town where the ground beneath your feet is literally on fire? Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a ...

The History Center on Main Street will host a presentation, “Barclay Mountain Coal Mining,” by Matt Carl on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. at our location at 61 North ...

Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his ...

Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal ...

The body of a coal miner has been found six days after he got trapped underground in complete darkness in a flooded mine. The ...

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — One village is frozen in time in Luzerne County. Eckley Miners' Village, now a museum, was an old mining town founded in 1854. It is also the setting of the 1970 film The Molly ...

Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.