Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills ...

A little goes a long way, and these dedicated ladies of talent and goodwill for all, make it go a lot further and for so many ...

Eight Little Boots Family Farms in Churchville has a creative use for Christmas trees that are donated to them. “The goats actually really enjoy them, and the pigs ...

In the past seven years, the Observer’s Empty Stocking Fund has raised over $1.2 million, thanks to Observer readers’ generous spirit.

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Staff at a Fargo hospital are spreading holiday cheer just days before Christmas by dressing newborn babies as stockings. Seven babies were wheeled out in stockings ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

There’s nothing quite like the unbridled thrill of waking up on Christmas morning to see a stocking that’s spilling over with presents in the corner of your room. Even those among us who’ve outgrown ...

While everyone else’s stockings are hung with care, Mom’s is often the last to be filled — if it’s filled at all. Why? For many families, moms are the magic makers of the holidays, but so often their ...

"It's loud!" says Martina Gieske, an only child who married into a family of 14 siblings. "It took me a few years to memorize all the names." Hanging 104 Christmas stockings on a fireplace mantle is ...

One pretty common Christmas tradition you might follow without even thinking about it is putting oranges in the stockings. But, of course, there is an origin story as to why we do this each holiday ...

This is dead posh. When I was small, my siblings and I all went to bed on Christmas Eve and solemnly draped one of our father’s enormous shooting socks over the end of our duvets. These were vast, ...