Across Illinois, once-bustling river ports and mining towns now sit silent, their fading buildings quietly preserving the stories of a forgotten past.

West Virginia once had a truly bustling train town in the New River Gorge, but the town has since become a hidden gem of a ...

The Ohio Department of Development has announced the next round of funding through the state’s Brownfield Remediation Program ...

From the Monongahela valley To the Mesabi iron range To the coal mines of Appalachia The story’s always the same Seven hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me the wor ...

There’s something magnetic about abandoned places. Maybe it’s the silence where there used to be noise, or the way wooden ...

Whether you believe in ghosts or just love a good scare, these haunted places across the US have earned spooky reputations.

The fanciful story begins in the 1860s after a man storytellers called Charles Congelier arrived in Pittsburgh and built a brick mansion at 1129 Ridge Ave. Allegedly, Congelier built his mansion atop ...

Discover hidden-gem attractions in Ohio where unexpected beauty, local lore, and a hint of the paranormal combine for ...

Retiring UMWA President Cecil Roberts talks about where the coalfields have been and where they could be going.

A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy projects in places that are hard to argue with: former coal mines and brownfields. But how much the legislation benefits clean energy will depend on the final ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project ...