Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MINERSVILLE — Local photographer and cultural historian Scott Herring, also known as “The Last Anthracite Photographer,” hosted an ...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of the Grove City Historical Society to the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour in Scranton. "It was ...

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Coal is back. Having become a fuel for most of the last two decades, countries are scrambling to secure ...

130 years ago in 1895, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: Coal Famine. Scarcity of black diamonds causes considerable alarm. Advance in prices. The elements and miners ...

LANSFORD, Pa. — A celebration of our area's anthracite coal history in Carbon County this Labor Day weekend. No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum in Lansford hosted its 18th Annual Coal Miners' Heritage ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) will host a talk on the History of Coal Oil Point by Goleta historian Tom Modugno for its Maritime Distinguished Speaker Series, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 at ...

Retirement of coal-fired power plants in the West has done nothing to reverse global coal demand. Global coal consumption is set to remain at these high levels—or even hit new all-time highs—for a few ...

Where was Coal Miner’s Daughter filmed? The unincorporated community of Bee, Virginia-tucked away in the southwestern corner of Virginia near the Kentucky border-is one that most have neither heard of ...