But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

According to officials, Pennsylvania has the largest inventory of abandoned coal mines in the nation, with a roughly $5 billion need for reclamation and stream restoration. MORE FROM FOX56 ...

Use extra caution. Secure outdoor objects. && An abandoned coal mine is too unstable and unsafe for rescuers looking for a 64-year-old Pennsylvania woman who may have been swallowed by a sinkhole.

“Many of (Pennsylvania’s coal mines) were abandoned in the early part of the last century,” Davis said. “The coal that was mined there built and supported communities like this ...

Sharyn Fisher, the owner of Fisher’s Furry Friends of PA in Greensburg, told Channel 11 this is the second set of puppies they’ve saved from Wyoming County, West Virginia.