Kneeling on all fours near a Luzerne County stream, Bobby Hughes peers intently at a mesh net containing wet sticks, pebbles and possibly living clues as to whether this waterway is healthy or ...

When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the ...

Experts warn about exploring old mines after a man was rescued after falling down one near Nanticoke during an exploration.