Centralia has become a harrowing and eerie tourist destination for curious roadtrippers making their way through Pennsylvania. This simple coal mining town met its fate in 1962 when a fire ...

Eckley Miners’ Village will mark the 35th anniversary of its signature event, Patchtown Days, on Saturday, June 14 and Sunday, June 15. The festival showcases the vibrant Coalcracker culture of ...

That Pennsylvania coal provided warmth and light in American ... “These coal-patch towns have loads of mines. Every town has a mine underneath it,” said Crabtree fire Chief Bill Watkins ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. - Standing before the wreckage ... in the moonscape of Centralia, a once-proud coal town whose population fled an underground mine fire that began in 1962 and continues to burn.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal mine in Westmoreland ... Association is hosting a town hall at St. Raymond of the ...

INDIANA COUNTY, Pa ... a mine and you’ve just forgotten about us.’” Anderson acknowledged that “we’re not going to be wildly successful in every single community that has a coal ...