Rural Minds, a local nonprofit focused on mental health in rural America, is set to be featured on a documentary episode of ...

Older Americans are leaving expensive cities and suburbs to retire in the country. The move to remote mountain and lake areas is helping reverse a long decline in the rural population. From April 2020 ...

Life in rural America comes with its challenges, and those challenges are highlighted during election season. Sam Van Wetter, a resident of the small town of Boulder, Utah, knows it. So, he works to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. GRUNDY, VIRGINIA - Optometry students administer vision tests to ...

Advocacy groups estimate that 700 rural hospitals ‒ about one in three ‒ as well as many rural clinics and nursing homes are ...

Access to high-quality health care is essential everywhere. However, it takes on a whole new meaning in rural areas, which often have greater medical needs and fewer resources. In regions where ...

“It’s the one constant in life. You build something worth having ... Bell calls a “spatial patriarchy” that characterizes rural America as dumb, incapable, racist, poor and degraded as “white trash.” ...

After devastating flooding in Texas, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Curtis Knobloch of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative about problems with rural coverage and possible solutions.

Kentucky history lives in the stories of rural folk like my great-great-grandpa, a veteran and moonshiner who survived with ...

Dom Holmes, 28, has learned something important in 10 years of organizing progressives in rural Pennsylvania: You can't just show up when you need people to turn out to vote. You have to sit and ...