In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, regional mines still provide jobs. The Department of Environmental ...

President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday to reinvigorate the country’s coal mining industry.

The health and safety of coal miners could be in danger if the Trump administration eliminates mine safety employees, ...

ORWIGSBURG — The IGNITE Schuylkill Youth Program’s “final event” is scheduled for May 8 at the Orwigsburg Veterans Memorial ...

Irresistible curiosity motivated Edward Gallagher to research and publish a book on his personal family history associated with the Molly Maguires. Gallagher, a retired professor of English at Lehigh ...

Donald Trump is ‘winging everything. And the whole thing is: us consumers are going to pay. It is coming to us, as Americans’ ...

Good Friday — this Friday — is the most solemn day of the year for Christians and also a day to get your pizza orders in ...

Born in Girardville, a small mining town in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Harry was a son of the late Edward and Doris (McCaffrey) Humes. His father worked as a deep-pit coal miner and his ...

Mine cars resurrected from the depths of ... (MATTHEW PERSCHALL/MULTIMEDIA EDITOR) And the twin smokestacks of a coal-fired Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. power plant rise in stark contrast ...