If a community is 30 miles from the nearest hospital, it will face rural challenges, regardless of whether 500 or 50,000 people live there.

For more than 20 years, Heidi Khokhar has worked for an organization that partners with communities to grow businesses, revitalize downtowns and boost entrepreneurial skills of local people. In this ...

Temporary pandemic-era changes helped a lot. Continuing revival requires systems calibrated to rural scale rather than to ...

The United States needs to build vast amounts of renewable energy, and rural communities have an abundance of flat cropland that can accommodate wind and solar power. But the push to build ...

Sponsored by Ascendium Education Group, the FORWARD curriculum is designed to support Cooperative Extension Professionals (CEPs) working to address workforce development issues in rural communities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have signed a memorandum of understanding that allows rural hospitals and physicians to access capital loan ...

From investing in broadband, water, sewer, community facilities and housing, the person who oversees the Rural Development mission area at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a vast array of ...

Ms. Conner is a mother of six children. A grandmother of twice as many. She was raised on a farm, knows the meaning of hard work and reads her Bible daily. Unexpectedly, she suffered a stroke at the ...

Since the 2016 election, big-city pundits and national progressive campaigns have provided no shortage of attempts to understand the politics of rural America. But according to activists at ...

MISSION, Kan., Sept. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- (Family Features) Rural America is experiencing a mental health emergency. For residents of rural communities, there is evidence of higher rates of mental ...