Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kelli McGuffey Pilkington hunts deer and squirrels, fishes whenever she can, stores jars of preserved food she cans herself — and ...

After the end of a hostage standoff this week in Alabama involving an alleged "survivalist," and news that a group in Idaho wants to construct a giant walled fortress in the panhandle of Idaho, many ...

Survivalism, the practice of preparing for the collapse of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is updating its governing handbook with new rules and guidelines for its members. Four new sections were added to the book, ...

In the wake of a terrible tragedy like Friday's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, most people immediately begin groping for answers. On Sunday, a family member claimed that Nancy ...

The survivalist movement gets a partial makeover in this revisionist study of America's backwoods doomsayers. Sociologist Mitchell begins with a simple thesis: survivalists are not necessarily crazy ...