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WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine wo...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A slew of Pittsburgh area companies, trade and labor groups are advocating that Appalachia’s proposed new hydrogen economy can be b...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Conservation District (MCCD) was awarded $164,181 to conduct a surface-water quality assessment of the Scaffold Lick Run...

LETTER 5: Today we have the last of the letter we’ve been sharing from Paul P. Lyon, who wrote to The Era in 1923 to share his insights about the Domi...

Historically known as a hub of industrial innovation, Pennsylvania is now poised to enter a new era of economic prosperity through the mining and refi...

To the miners living in squalor in southern Elk County, she was a hero; to the executives getting rich off of Shawmut Mining and Railroad, she was “th...

Dr. Betty Hayes may not be a name that rings a bell to most, but her concern for public health in southern Elk County in the 1940s went all the way to...

HARRISBURG — State Reps. Mike Armanini, R-DuBois, and Dallas Kephart, R-Clearfield, are praising funding being targeted at addressing clean-up of Penn...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced funding for 16 environmental restoration projects on abandoned mine lan...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — William Byron took the lead on the second-to-last lap of overtime to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas on Sunday and put an...

NATURAL LANDMARKS: From the mystical Appalachian Trail which runs through the east — and Pennsylvania — to the natural phenomenon that is Mississippi’...

WASHINGTON — On Friday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is announcing Pennsylvania will receive $26 million in funding for abandoned mine land (AML) recla...

Pennsylvania has vast experience with the gut-wrenching struggle to overcome the demise of dominant industries. It is an ongoing process more than 70 ...

RESCUES: Just recently, the world watched, transfixed, as crews hurried to rescue 12 boys and their football coach from a cave in Thailand. It wasn’t ...

The fifth annual First Fork Festival scheduled Saturday at Sinnemahoning State Park will feature local authors, artists, artisans –– and singer, songw...