Local photographer and cultural historian Scott Herring, also known as “The Last Anthracite Photographer,” hosted an in-depth presentation on Thursday about the coal region’s ethnic ...

Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas.Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front.At ...

Cumberland is testing whether its abandoned coal mines can become a town-wide geothermal network that supports redevelopment, economic growth, and lower emissions.

Postponing the closure of the Schahfer coal plant also means continued exposure to toxic emissions and leaks for nearby ...

Coal remains essential to KY's energy portfolio. But if the communities that produce the energy can't afford it, the system is out of alignment.

For over 100 years, a tall, narrow building has stood at the coal piles in downtown Green Bay. It was a modern marvel back then.

More than 3,000 objects from the late 1800s found buried under a ski resort in Utah, marking a mining town's history ...

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When Vermonters think about the natural resources of our state, metallic riches seldom come to mind. Our forests and the lumbering operations they’ve supported; the slate, marble and granite quarries ...

The source of the dust is a monument to the past: a 50-foot mountain of towering black rock, called slag, left over from a copper smelter that operated on the outskirts of town until the smelter was ...

A Forest Service archaeologist and researcher are creating an interpretive walking tour for the Elkhorn-Coolidge ghost town in the Pioneer Mountains, a site with a rich but timeworn history.

Forty-five miles southeast of Tucson on the east slope of the Santa Rita Mountains are the Greaterville gold placers, discovered by A. Smith in 1874. The deposit, at 5,280-feet elevation, became the ...