During the past 18 months, at least 18 legal actions brought against Amish in N.Y., Wisc. Custom-built homes are allowed in Wisconsin as long as the plans meet code standards, but apparently the Amish ...

PRESTON — A criminal case against an Amish couple accused of failing to get a building permit could move to civil court in southeastern Minnesota. Prosecutors in Fillmore County have filed a civil ...

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. -The first of several rural Jackson County Amish residents accused of ignoring state building codes has been judged to have violated that code. Daniel S. Borntreger of the town ...

I have a small disagreement with Judge Laabs' claim that he showed Daniel Borntreger as much leniency as the law allowed (April, 2). He might have considered that the old-order Amish have a compelling ...

Olmsted County has some new options on its property tax site, so I'm playing around with it to learn how to best use it. So here'e the latest bit I stumbled across. The Amish Store of Rochester at ...

TOWN OF FRANKLIN, Wis. — Daniel Borntreger’s home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses: two-story A-frame, porch, clothes on the line. But his home could cost him thousands of ...