GORDONVILLE, Pa. (AP) — In booming Lancaster, among the fastest growing counties in Pennsylvania, large Amish families and the cost of farmland has put pressure on the traditional lives they prefer.

Karen Johnson-Weiner encountered Amish culture for the first time thanks to a group of Japanese exchange students. When she was a student at Hope College, she helped staff a summer program in English ...

FILE - In this April 15, 2011 file photo, an Amish farmer plows a field near New Holland, Pa. The Amish population in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County is continuing to grow each year, despite the ...

A voting advertisement geared toward the Amish population of Lancaster County is displayed on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Strasburg, Pa. On a recent weekday afternoon, an Amish man in a horse-drawn ...

Braxton Mitchell has worked with the Amish for 30 years as co-director of the Amish Research Clinic in Lancaster. He can say for a fact that autism exists in the community, contrary to President ...