In the 1890s, the Bighorns were a vast, rugged territory with few roads beyond wagon pathways. While horses and oxen could ...

The coal communities of Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties are not miscreants — they are Marylanders. They are ...

Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...

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 ...

The U.S. uranium mining industry is looking to a revival under President Donald Trump. Environmental reviews of mining ...

Monroeville Democratic state Rep. Brandon Markosek has put forth a bill that would create a blight database managed by the ...

Of course, Pittsburgh is also home to the MLB 's Pirates and NHL's Penguins - two stories franchises in their own right. But ...

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.

Philly? Chicago? Pittsburgh? Take a look at how the six-pick draft played out between the "PFT Live" co-hosts.

Growing up, Slovak American Benjamin Demko never quite felt like he fully belonged. Not to the Slovak community, despite ...

Pullman, Centralia, and Elcor are among towns whose fortunes rose and fell with one company. Some bounce back; others went ...

Eternal flames are flames that continuously burn for an extended period of time, often indefinitely. This natural phenomenon doesn’t occur often, but there happens to be one ...