This was the Great Depression, a time when families in Clarkson, Cooksville, Port Credit, Streetsville and elsewhere in ...

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 ...

As they do annually, dozens of members of the Madison County community stepped forward to contribute to the Empty Stocking ...

A festive dog clip is warming timelines for all the right reasons. In @whiskeytoller’s reel, a red pup sits by the mantel and stares at her stockings with hopeful eyes. She looks back at the camera, ...

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 ...

A man returning home for the holidays had more waiting in his Christmas stocking than he realized. A family tradition of ...

"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 ...

The tradition started in the mid-1960s, according to family matriarch Julia Gieske Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

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 ...

There are a few staple styles we associate holiday fashion with. Every December, velvet fabrics and sequin dresses take over the window displays of department stores and bold red hues fill Instagram ...

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 ...

Merry Christmas. And you're welcome. No need to thank us — the people of North Jersey and the Lower Hudson Valley — for inventing Christmas as everyone knows it. Santa, reindeer, letters to the North ...