The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats ...

After about a year of work along the margins, a project to replace the Reading bridge that carries Schuylkill Avenue over railroad tracks is finally about to begin. The 400 block of Schuylkill Avenue ...

An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

READING, Pa. – A major railroad bridge project in the city of Reading is about to get underway. That means there will be a major disruption to the flow of traffic in the area, and it's going to be for ...

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No derailments were shown since. Still, Western Pennsylvania is home to nine of the state’s 20 riskiest rail crossings, according to federal Railroad Administration data. Three of the crossings ...

Like every other railroad in northeastern Pennsylvania, Reading & Northern showed a decline in frac sand carloadings related to the steep decrease in Marcellus Shale drilling activity. Although ...

“Crossing each other and running through the center of town are the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and the Schuylkill Canal,” The Miner’s Journal reported in 1853. “Toward the west are ...

A two-week detour was required to lower a portion of Route 981 to improve clearance under the Pennsylvania Turnpike ... involved removal of an abandoned railroad truss, which was donated to ...

The Supreme Court said Tuesday it won’t hear civil rights groups’ appeal seeking to invalidate Pennsylvania’s dating ... much less adopting, their reading of the Provision.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is stuck in a 101-101 partisan divide following the sudden death of one of its Democratic members, leaving the chamber deadlocked until a special election ...