When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the ...

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress stopped by the No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum in Lansford, where a project to showcase historic ...

FOSTER TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — In Foster Township, the Eckley Miners’ Village is showcasing vibrant coal-cracker culture, celebrating 35 years of Patchtown Days. More than 20 ...

In addition, McCormick will host a book reading of “Reclamation: From Coal Dust to Hope” from 12:20 to 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18.

If there is a war on coal, Casper was its battlefield Tuesday. The combatants — some 300 miners and ranchers, state politicians and environmentalists — descended on the Casper Events ...

The coal field project’s backers estimate that it could one day create 1,600 jobs and millions in tax revenues. But local skeptics have questioned those numbers because data centers generally ...