Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two former coal mining sites in Schuylkill County that suffered heavy environmental damage during those operations decades ago and ...

Two projects in Schuylkill County aimed at reclaiming abandoned mine lands and improving water quality have been awarded nearly $8.1 million in state funding, according to Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and ...

When animal rights activists from Pennsylvania took a closer look at a parked car after receiving a tip, their hearts sank: inside the car were dozens of cats.

Jonathan Gerlach, a 34-year-old man from Lancaster County, is accused of stealing more than 100 remains from a Delaware County cemetery ...

Some Pennsylvania towns grew naturally over centuries, their identities emerging organically from geography and circumstance. Then there’s Jim Thorpe, which decided to purchase its identity wholesale ...

Beneath parts of the Appalachian Mountains, thousands of mine shafts still descend deep into the earth. Some of these vertical passages drop more than 1,000 feet, connecting long corridors carved ...

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Not far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, former plant worker Toru Akama tends to dozens of pets abandoned after the catastrophe 15 years ago, work he sees as part ...

Representative Summer Lee announced on Monday that her office had secured over $14 million in federal funding to go toward local community improvement projects.

The electricity needed to power new Pennsylvania data centers already in advanced stages of planning could power 11 million homes — nearly twice the total number of households in the state.

Without effective cooling, temperatures in computing devices would quickly rise to damaging levels, forcing systems to shut down. In November 2025, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange experienced a major ...