Home heating prices have gone up since last year, prompting people to turn to an age-old method to keep their homes warm. Reading time 3 minutes The cost of living throughout the U.S. is on the rise, ...

Rural America knows the truth long before the rest of the country feels it. Nothing collapses all at once. It just stops working in small places first while everyone else calls it local hardship. That ...

Jan. 28—In an open field just past Grave Creek Road in Fortine, on a winter Saturday volunteers are loading wood into trucks, clearing snow off of wood piles and splitting lumber into burnable logs.

Wood banks — which provide firewood to people in need at no charge — have officially existed in Maine for almost two decades. They're increasing in number, due in part to the rising cost of living, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Working on the wood shed here are Region 9 students Colby Frisbie and Brody ...

Rebecca Rundquist, the board president of the Cumberland Wood Bank, in front of one of their woodpiles on December 3 in North Yarmouth. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer Before a volunteer from the ...

Volunteers with the St Michael & All Angels Wood Ministry in Fortine, Montana are seen at the Wood Ministry on Satuday, Jan. 20, 2024. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Ethel White, former mayor of ...

As the cost of living goes up, more people are having a hard time heating their homes. In rural New England, that means firewood. Lots of people still rely on it for heat. Maine Public Radio's Nora ...