An Ohio museum explores the history of the Bucyrus-Erie Company's giant coal shovels and surprising uses for coal.

Perhaps written by a judge — “did not get done as some of the depositions failed to get here in time, just throwed it out of court and quit.” The card captured the challenges of digging a level ...

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley visited a large, county-backed redevelopment project in South Milwaukee on Monday. Two years ago, the county provided $3 million in funding for the $50 million ...

The Erie Canal was a transformative public works project in American history. Stretching 351 miles from Albany to Buffalo, ...

My grandson, Benjamin, has been selected to play the lead in his drama club’s production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog ...

Girardville, a tiny, past-its-prime coal town hidden in the Schuylkill County mountains, could be worth more dead than alive. Locals say a thick stretch of the Mammoth coal vein that minted the town’s ...

A conversation with Sir Stephen Fry is a whirlwind of eclectic and esoteric references across a staggering diversity of knowledge that is stochastically connected in his polymathic mind to produce ...

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm, which began Jan. 7 near Los Angeles, here. On a hot, dry November morning in 1961, flames from a trash pile on brushland north of ...

Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites.

Salt Lake City is gaining momentum as a favorite to land an MLB expansion team. The Larry H. Miller Company has a shovel-ready site for a stadium in the Power District. The Jordan River could be a ...