Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to ...

Discover Pennsylvania’s mining heritage on this underground train ride through a historic coal mine deep beneath the surface.

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...

First of two parts: Girardville, a tiny, past-its-prime coal town hidden in the Schuylkill County mountains, could be worth more dead than alive. Locals say a thick stretch of the Mammoth coal vein ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard, the missing 64-year-old woman who fell through a sinkhole while looking for her cat in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, has been found, ...

GIRARDVILLE, Pa. – Like coal buried beneath the ground, it can be difficult to find. Girardville measures a mere square mile.

This file photo shows Shamokin Creek in Shamokin, Pa. Drainage from thousands of abandoned coal mines has contaminated thousands of miles of rivers and streams in the state. More than $101 million is ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) - At least another full day of digging will be needed to find a woman who is believed to have been swallowed by a sinkhole behind a restaurant in Westmoreland County, ...

(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s orphan oil and gas well problem has gotten much attention in recent months. So too has the commonwealth’s legacy of hazardous mine lands. Now, the federal ...

HOLLSOPPLE, Pa. (AP) — A mining company employee was crushed to death in an accident involving a shuttle car in a western Pennsylvania mine, authorities said. LCT Energy said in a statement that the ...