The visits are nice. Occasional visits. Reuben Kauffman will park across from his boyhood home and change into the simple black and white clothes of the Amish that are stashed for him in his father’s ...

Daniel Borntreger’s home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses: two-story A-frame, porch, clothes on the line. But his home could cost him thousands of dollars in fines. Borntreger, an ...

The Amish don't have telephones, so Erick Woods drove 45 minutes to give the Borntregers the news: They won a reprieve Friday from an order to vacate their Wisconsin home after refusing to comply with ...

Seven of the nine victims killed Friday in a crash in west-central Wisconsin were members of an Amish community from a remote Appalachian region in Virginia. The Clark County crash, one of the ...

When life feels too complicated, I can regain a sense of balance by driving to farmland where Amish families intentionally live quietly, simply and conservatively. Add “mysteriously,” if you’ve had ...

The outcry over a Wisconsin Amish family ordered by a court to leave their home is fueling a legislative push for a religious exemption from building codes requiring smoke alarms and other modern ...

Levi Fisher’s ancestors farmed the fertile land of eastern Pennsylvania for more than 275 years while living a quiet, traditional Amish lifestyle. But squeezed in recent years by encroaching suburbia, ...

MADISON — University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Wisconsin's Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities. Researchers hope to pinpoint the unique ...

A 17-year-old Amish youth drowned while cutting ice on a spring-fed pond in Vernon County of western Wisconsin. Sheriff John Spears said the youth and other boys were cutting ice in the town of ...