There are as many as 500,000 abandoned mines nationwide — far outnumbering those that are still active, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Rescue workers search through ...

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

UPDATE: For more updates on Wednesday's search and rescue efforts in Unity Township, Westmoreland County, click here. UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- The abandoned mine where search and rescue efforts ...

Reed Johnson at his property in Clearfield County. Abandoned mine waste pollutes the nearby Little Anderson Creek. On a sunny afternoon in late February, Reed Johnson trudges through the slushy snow ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) - At least another full day of digging will be needed to find a woman who is believed to have been swallowed by a sinkhole behind a restaurant in Westmoreland County, ...

OFFICIALS WANT YOU TO HEAR IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS TRAGEDY. PENNSYLVANIA’S DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SAYS ONE THIRD OF AMERICA’S ABANDONED MINE LANDS ARE HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA. I’M ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — The team looking for a missing Pennsylvania woman believed to have fallen into a sinkhole has determined that an abandoned coal mine is too unstable for people to safely ...

The view and stream quality along Derry Township’s Atlantic Road have improved now that three abandoned mine refuse piles have been removed. As part of a Pennsylvania program, Latrobe-based Robindale ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro announced $39 million in new state funding Wednesday to promote development, starting with nearly 1.4 ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states ...