Fortitude Ranch sells disaster preparedness like a vacation timeshare. Founder Drew Miller says that the panic around coronavirus has led to a "huge surge in interest" in the business's offerings.

TOLEDO — Curt La Haise has put up with plenty of razzing from friends over the years, friends who have called him paranoid for stockpiling an eight-month supply of food in his basement and having ...

The preparedness pro at The Urban Prepper examines which communities and groups share prepper values today.

According to the National Park Service, as early as 1866, when the law stated that Blacks were allowed to benefit from the Homestead Act signed by Abraham Lincoln, homesteading became the entry way ...

What exactly is a prepper? It’s anyone who anticipates a calamity resulting in some degree of social collapse, and makes plans—or prepares—to survive independently. Behind that definition lies a gamut ...

Do you have your “bug-out bag” (BOB) ready for when the “s*** hits the fan” (SHTF), or will you “bug in” for “the end of the world as we know it” (TEOTWAWKI)? This jargon is well understood within ...