Butler County — like most of Western Pennsylvania — has a rich history of coal mining dating to the late 18th century. Since ...

Every now and then a horrifying news story reaches the airwaves, detailing a gaping chasm that’s appeared seemingly without ...

The search for a Pennsylvania grandmother believed to have fallen into a sinkhole Monday while searching for her cat has ...

Pennsylvania is one of the states most prone to sinkholes, according to the American Geosciences Institute, but where do ...

This is the shocking moment a huge sinkhole opened up in a road in India. The middle of the motorway had collapsed, creating a 20ft ( 6m) wide hole that resulted in a traffic jam in Punjab on December ...

Crews will return to the abandoned coal mine in Unity Township Friday and start to drill holes in the ground — about 40 feet ...

In early December, a 64-year-old woman was found dead in Pennsylvania after falling into a sinkhole. The sinkhole initially “began as a manhole-sized gap and may have only recently opened above ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly ...

An abandoned coal mine is too unstable and unsafe for rescuers looking for a 64-year-old Pennsylvania woman who may have been ...