In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

A series of events were held Sunday to remember the Knox Mine Disaster — a coal mining accident that happened Jan. 22, 1959 in Jenkins Twp. when the Susquehanna River broke through the mine’s ...

NEPA is rich in history when comes to mining, especially since Wilkes-Barre was the first city where anthracite coal was used. According to the City of Wilkes-Barre, Obadiah Gore was the first man ...

Water bubbling to the surface right next to Wilkes-Barre ... mine pool water up,” he said. “When the mines were in operating they were pumping the water out of the mines to extract the deep ...