Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most Christmas lights contain plastic, glass and copper. At a facility, recycled Christmas lights will be crushed up — making it ...

Come January, Christmas cards usually go straight from the mantel to the trash, but not all season's greetings count as clutter. Certain kinds of correspondence can, in fact, be sold for cold, hard ...

Figgy pudding need not apply. This season, think beyond holiday movie marathons and reintroduce Christmas traditions from years gone by that are bound to make this season extra merry and bright.

Some people observe December 25 as sacred and also mark January 6 as “Old Christmas.” We’ve all heard of traditional Christmas carols like “Jingle Bells” and “Deck the Halls,” but what about “The ...

The holiday season is here — so take a time-out from the hustle and bustle and unwind with my favorite Christmas classics. Unforgettable stories of hope and love, they remind us of what the season is ...

Settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them Scots-Irish — faced hard journeys on rough roads and trails through terrain crisscrossed with mountain ridges and valleys cut by rivers and creeks. In ...