CENTRALIA, Pa. - Standing before the wreckage of his bulldozed home, John Lokitis Jr. felt sick to his stomach, certain that a terrible mistake had been made.

It is unclear how the Centralia fire started in 1962, but 53 years later, ... Additionally, the fire weakened the ground, leaving the area prone to sinkholes, Britannica said.

Sinkholes are also complicated to resolve: Many states don’t require homeowners’ insurance to cover them, leaving many people to deal with a big problem on their own.

Same state, different highway hole. A gaping sinkhole opened up on a different New Jersey highway Friday — days after a third formed just miles away along Interstate 80 since December and threw ...

A sinkhole has developed on Interstate 287 north in Parsippany-Troy Hills on Friday afternoon; As of 4:15 p.m., the NJDOT said that two left northbound lanes are closed north of Exit 41.

A new sinkhole opened up on I-80 westbound near the Route 15 overpass in Morris County while work crews were repairing an earlier sinkhole on the eastbound side of the highway.

A large sinkhole near Hardesty and Smart Street in northeast Kansas City is causing concern among residents, who are urging city officials to address the issue promptly."It's been here for ...

A sinkhole that opened up in the center lane on I-80 east in Wharton before the start of the Monday morning commute is not the same one that closed the highway for four days in December, ...

A possible sinkhole forming in the center lane of I-80 in New Jersey’s Morris County shut down all eastbound lanes Monday morning, in the same spot as a December sinkhole.

Another sinkhole in Wharton forced the closure of all eastbound lanes on Interstate 80 Monday at Exit 34 for New Jersey Route 15. In December a sinkhole closed I-80 for four days in the same town.

Swimming pool-sized sinkhole traps truck driver in Japan 00:51. Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near ...

Rescuers attempted to recover a truck swallowed by a massive sinkhole in Japan's city of Yashio, in Saitama Prefecture on Jan. 28. (Video: TV Tokyo via Reuters) ...