The vast expanse of the United States is dotted with fascinating mining towns that have been all but abandoned, leaving only ...

As the September evening inched along, the line of residents waiting their turn for the microphone held steady. Filing down the auditorium aisles at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, they were ...

Since 1962, a fire has burned beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-bustling mining town that is now home to only a handful of residents.

Can a town in steep decline still chart a future, or is its fate already sealed? That question anchors a new Pennsylvania-focused podcast debate sparked by PennLive’s four-part series on Girardville, ...

Girardville, a tiny, past-its-prime coal town hidden in the Schuylkill County mountains, could be worth more dead than alive. Locals say a thick stretch of the Mammoth coal vein that minted the town’s ...