On her 109th birthday Tuesday, Mary Wassil Rapach’s thoughts drifted back to Harwood Mines, the Luzerne County coal patch ...

Over nine seasons, “The Office” regularly name-dropped real places and products associated with Scranton, where the ...

Operations targeting critical minerals such as titanium, zirconium, gold and rare earth elements are driving a new generation of mining activity on the West ... and developers of gold and ...

Over the next few days, the Irish Pretenders will celebrate two decades of playing traditional Irish folk music in the Johnstown region. The band’s journey started with four original members – John ...

I didn’t grow up in a union household, but I’m steeped in union lore and stories. They’re part of America’s fabric and spirit ...

Mine reclamation isn’t just about fixing old scars on the landscape — it’s about protecting ... hardship for Pennsylvania businesses and workers. For generations, coal mining powered our economy, but ...

Today in History for March 28: On this date: In 1380, gunpowder was first used in Europe in a battle between the Genoese and the Venetians. In 1515, Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila, founder of a ...

Liz Partsch shares memories of her family's sugar camp in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and how the Partsch family continues this maple syrup making legacy today.

WAMPUM, Pa. — On a cold Monday in early December ... Lonnett delivered a more succinct message: “It was either this or a lunch bucket in the coal mines,” he recalled to Reader’s Digest in 1972. Allen ...