Join ciLiving for a festive and educational holiday segment! Joyce and John from Dine with a Doc stop by to share the surprising and heartwarming history of Santa Claus — from Saint Nicholas to the ...

It’s easy to imagine Saint Nicholas as just as mythical as the modern-day Santa Claus -- but he actually was a real person.

However, one particular image that has vanished from our modern celebrations is Father Christmas donned in a green suit, a sight that would have been commonplace in Victorian times. Interestingly, ...

It’s Christmas time, so I’m taking a look at myths related to the holiday. Last week, I focused on myths about Jesus. This week I’m taking a look at that other beloved Christmas icon: Santa Claus, the ...

Santa Trackers are a longstanding tradition that allow people to follow Santa Claus as he makes his once-a-year journey from the North Pole.

Seventy years ago, a wrong number prompted the U.S. Air Force to begin issuing reports of St. Nick’s progress on Christmas Eve.

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did not annually commemorate his birth? Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2014. We are republishing it as part of our holiday coverage.Santa Claus, Ind., located in Spencer County, was given that name on Christmas Eve in 1852 ...