Brad Hundt

Editor's note: This is one in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

RUFF CREEK – The United Mine Workers of America Career Centers in Ruff Creek will be recruiting and training workers for a manufacturing facility near Morgantown, W.Va., that will be used for lithium iron phosphate raw material production, it was announced Tuesday. The facility, in Bridgeport, W.Va., had been a glass manufacturer but closed in […]

photo by: Brad Hundt Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaks at the United Mine Workers of America Career Centers in Ruff Creek Tuesday.

All 538 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for grabs in Tuesday's election, and with Republicans' current majority at a knife-edge three seats, which party will control the House is about as much of a toss-up as who will win the presidential contest.

CECIL – After months of debate and hours of public hearings, supervisors in Cecil Township approved a revision to the community’s oil and gas ordinance Monday that increases the distance new well pads must be from homes, businesses, schools and hospitals. According to the revised ordinance, any new well pads must now be about 2,500 […]

Local Republicans were exultant and Democrats were looking to regroup following an election that saw former President Donald Trump win Pennsylvania on his way back to the White House, and Republicans up and down the ballot scoring touchdowns. In fact, the Facebook page of the Fayette County Republican Committee boasted a cover photo Wednesday featuring […]

When Patrick Radden Keefe was in high school in the early 1990s, he had a singular ambition – to write for The New Yorker. When he revealed to an English teacher that he wanted to join the staff of what could very well be America’s most prestigious magazine, it was met with a little bit […]

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Barrels full of ink were spilled, millions upon millions of dollars were spent and hours upon hours of volunteer work were spent knocking on thousands of doors and getting in touch with thousands of voters.

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