In 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn trash in a landfill built inside an abandoned strip mine. The fire never went out. Sixty-three years later, it's still burning. The ...

In 1983, the US government spent $43 million to relocate residents, but some refused to leave. The town's story inspired the 2006 horror film "Silent Hill." Over 60 years ago, Centralia, Pennsylvania, ...

Once a thriving anthracite coal town, Centralia slowly unraveled after a landfill fire ignited its labyrinth of mining tunnels. Over the next two decades, carbon monoxide leaks, collapsing streets, ...

(AP) – The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town that was largely razed in the 1980s because of an underground mine fire that still burns today have gotten their wish _ to be left alone, ...

A federal mine report said the nearly 301,500 tons of coal produced by the colliery in 1873 was “the largest shipment of ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal mine in Westmoreland County. Johnstown-based LCT Energy LP operates the 2,800-acre Rustic ...

For the past 70 years, the King Coal Association has promoted and celebrated the history of mining in Southwestern ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --Officials on Wednesday said a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is now more dangerous and unstable after a missing woman reportedly fell through it while babysitting her granddaughter.

The view and stream quality along Derry Township’s Atlantic Road have improved now that three abandoned mine refuse piles have been removed. As part of a Pennsylvania program, Latrobe-based Robindale ...