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 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 ...

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 ...

FENNIMORE, Wis. -- Black horse-drawn buggies have long been a feature of the landscape where Amish farmers have settled in the rural Midwest, but among the hills of southwestern Wisconsin the buggies ...

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 ...

CASHTON, Wis. – Amish dairy farmers who oppose a Wisconsin livestock identification system that takes full effect May 1 contend it’s forcing them to make a choice between their livelihood and their ...

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 ...

TOWNSHIP OF GRANT, Wis. (AP) — Clark County sheriff's officials say an Amish schoolhouse has been hit by gunfire four times since last year and that finding the person or people responsible has been a ...