Residents in the small town of Scofield are pushing back against a proposed coal mine that many feel would upend the quiet, rural community's way of life.

Girardville’s nearly 200-year history reads like a rollercoaster of ups and downs in the Schuylkill County anthracite region.

Centralia, Pennsylvania looks like an ordinary abandoned town — except the ground beneath it has been burning since 1962.

Ten years later in 1979, the fire reached a point of no return. The mayor, John Coddington, who also ran a gas station, discovered during a routine check that the gasoline in his underground tanks was ...

Sitting over 6,000 feet up in the mountains of central Idaho is a once-thriving mining town that's now one of the better preserved ghost towns in the Gem State. The Pacific Northwest is filled with ...

Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas.Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front.At ...

There is something strangely fascinating about places that were once vibrant but now stand empty. Abandoned towns, factories, and villages often look frozen in time, with machinery or streets ...

This abandoned settlement hides an underground inferno that has raged for decades and is predicted to continue burning for centuries to come. Previously a thriving mining community, Centralia was ...

BARENTSBURG, Norway—This coal mining town about 800 miles from the North Pole is part of Norway, a founding member of NATO. And yet, the salaries here are paid in rubles, TVs broadcast Russian ...

A Soviet -era settlement that was once a popular destination for wealthy tourists is now a ghost town. Akarmara, a mining town in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia's Tkvarcheli district was ...

The United States is home to more than 4,500 ghost towns, settlements that were once thriving but are now abandoned due to economic decline, the closure of mines, changes in transportation routes, or ...

To determine the must-see movies set in Pennsylvania, Spotlight PA consulted film experts from across the commonwealth, as ...