Apr. 6—This story was originally published in March 2021. There was a time when all it took to construct an outdoor privy in Maine was a shovel, some wood and a bit of sweat. Not anymore. Modern ...

FAIRBANKS — There are worse words used for it, but an outhouse is an institution in Alaska. Outhouses are standards at our rest stops along the roads and hiking trails in the state. And for many in ...

Outhouses can be about more than just … you know. “I thought it would be fun to build an outhouse that was almost a piece of sculpture,” said John Sylvestre, a remodeler who is renovating his lake ...

Arkansas, particularly in the mountainous regions, has often been criticized as being the home of the oft-caricatured hillbilly. The hillbilly of lore is lazy, shoeless, and, due to a lack of indoor ...

Long before modern-day yard sales, garage sales and moving sales, people disposed of their unwanted household items by dropping them down the hole of their outhouse. Broken pottery, used ink bottles, ...

The latest example of misguided government spending smells a little funny — and it might not be just because of the cost to taxpayers. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management is taking ...