There’s a town in Washington State that historians love, TV fans recognize, and almost everyone else has somehow managed to ...

The vast expanse of the United States is dotted with fascinating mining towns that have been all but abandoned, leaving only ...

The Harrison County History of Coal Museum is giving visitors a look back at the role coal mining played in the Ohio ...

John Henry Jones, 98, of Greenbelt, died peacefully on June 11, 2026, surrounded by family and friends.  Born May 6, 1928, in ...

As the area joins the nation in celebrating its 250th anniversary, it might be worth mentioning that if it weren’t for a decision made in New Jersey, many of us Pennsylvanians might be Connecticut ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was heavily criticized for his perceived coziness with data centers across the commonwealth on ...

Pittsburgh's rivers may contain raw sewage and runoff from abandoned mines. Even a small amount of rain can cause sewer ...

Somewhere in the hills of Ashland, Pennsylvania, there’s a yellow mine car pointed at the side of a mountain, and it’s ...

The pitch dark of the mines didn’t bother him, and in a nation where coal miners are a vanishing species—there were 863,000 of them in the U.S. in 1923 and just 69,000 a century later—Popernack found ...

When it comes to outdoorsy towns in Pennsylvania, it's a simple fact that most towns in the Keystone State could qualify as such. With trails that weave in and out of mountains and waterfalls galore, ...

In western South Dakota’s Black Hills, where dense ponderosa pines make mountains appear black from afar, the historic Lead area is experiencing a luxury real-estate transformation. For more than a ...