When an abandoned mine collapsed beneath a neighborhood in Fayette County, buckling a home’s foundation and tearing apart the roadway, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Abandoned Mine ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

They were accidents waiting to happen. The Darr Mine, operated by the Pittsburgh Coal Company and located in south-western Pennsylvania, was one such mine. A cloud of dust and smoke instead of her ...

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her ... drop into a damp, dark hole where coal mining ended seven decades ago. After overnight snowfall left a thin coating on the ground ...

On January 22, 1959, a disaster in a mine called Knox killed 12 people. Six years ago, Mike Stevens tracked down one of miners who survived the cave-in. We head back down the Pennsylvania Road to ...