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George Korson, the coal country's storyteller
George Korson was born in Ukraine in 1899 and emigrated with his family to Brooklyn in 1906. Despite this, Korson always thought of Wilkes-Barre, where he and his family moved in the early 1910s, as his hometown. Newspapers played a big role in…
A $100m liability, a $50k donation and One Nation's sudden change of mind
One Nation received nearly $50,000 from one of Australia's biggest labour-hire firms after the party performed an eleventh-hour reversal and supported legislation that gutted several legal challenges in which the company, WorkPac, was potentially…
We are crusading against things that would keep us safe - like data centres
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. As enlightenment philosopher Adam Smith archly observed in a text that has shaped economic thinking ever since: “people of the same trade…
LETTER: America's future
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... President Trump's America is becoming a nation increasingly isolated from the world it once helped lead. His reckless use of tariffs is turning longtime allies into adversaries, raising costs for American…
TV tonight: Strictly shakes up movie week!
Camera, action! For the first time in Strictly history, all the contestants will get their closeup in movie week. It's also the first elimination of the series, with the result being announced on Sunday at 7.10pm. Before then, the dancers take us…
Electrification offers an off-ramp from fossil fuels, but there is a hook
At what would be his last Climate Summit as UN secretary-general, António Guterres took to the stage with characteristic gravitas. 'We are the first generation with the tools to end the fossil fuel age, and the last who can avert climate…
A tropical island drought may raise the price of your sneakers
Long-submerged houses are exposed after prolonged drought lowers the water level of Karian Dam, in Lebak, Banten province, Indonesia, in July. (Photograph by Tatan Syuflana/AP) What could 2026 do to make the fossil-fuel supply crisis emanating from…
Celebrating the geological importance of Wren's Nest in Dudley
Nestled in the heart of the Black Country is an internationally important geological site and a landscape 428 million years in the making. Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve in Dudley is home to millions of fossils in its limestone-rich rocks and…
From Nanticoke to Hollywood, Nick Adams became a star in the 'Rebel' generation
The actor who would be known to audiences worldwide as Nick Adams was born as Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock in 1931 in the Hanover section of Nanticoke. The son of a coal miner, Adams grew up in extreme poverty in a company house, and spent much of…
How 1,800 Local Tradespeople Are Powering Pennsylvania's Ultimate Energy and Data Innovation Campus
HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania -- Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust, then told anyone who would listen that the…
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Illinois caterer shut down after football team gets sick
Illinois health officials shut down an unlicensed, home-based caterer after a high school football team dinner sickened at least 45 people and forced the school to postpone its homecoming game. The Rock Island High School football team's Sept. 24…
The Supreme Court will hear a major climate change case involving a devastating Colorado wildfire
Less than an hour after the first warning that a wildfire was headed for her suburban street, Tawnya Somauroo's Colorado home was in ashes. She has worked tirelessly for nearly five years to rebuild her house and help ensure her neighborhood can…
Overlooked stories of Aberfan to be told as 60th anniversary of tragedy marked
As the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster approaches there are many events scheduled to mark the tragic day in Wales' history. The Silent Volunteer is a moving exploration of one of the most significant events in Welsh history and will call…
Parliamentary Standing Committees Reconstituted: Shashi Tharoor Reappointed External Affairs Panel Chief; Sudhanshu Trivedi Named Commerce Panel Chairperson
New Delhi: Parliamentary Standing Committees for the year have been reconstituted with effect from September 26. Chairpersons for 24 panels have been appointed, according to a Lok Sabha bulletin issued on Saturday. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has…
From Wilkes-Barre's Little Theatre to 'Poltergeist': The prolific career of James Karen
Born in the Wyoming Valley in 1923, James Karen was introduced to films just as synchronized sound was moving into the mainstream. He would go to the movie theater with his father Joe, an illiterate coal mining immigrant from Russia, to read the…
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