Survivalism is going mainstream. In the wake of Sept. 11, a growing number of Americans are turning to the techniques of survivalism to prepare themselves for terrorism and disaster. But this “New ...

Kelli McGuffey Pilkington hunts deer and squirrels, fishes whenever she can, stores jars of preserved food she cans herself — and keeps a holstered Smith and Wesson .38-caliber handgun under her ...

I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a natural disaster, ...

Casey: Survivalism didn't have a very good reputation associated with it. And so I think Prepper was a term that developed to kind of soften the edges a bit, and to make the what we might consider ...

Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and ...

It has been a decade since Ali Fathollahi of downtown Las Vegas and his wife, Nanda Sharif-pour, moved from their home country of Iran to Turkey, and later Las Vegas, in search of political freedom.