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Last December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County,…

Residents in rural communities across the United States continue to lose access to hospital-based…

Compared to their urban and suburban counterparts, a greater share of rural voters cast their…

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily…

Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a…

The first time Gwen Johnson laid eyes on Ben Fink, he was on stage at Kings Creek Volunteer Fire…

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the…

In the 1700s, 80 million bison roamed much of North America. They were everything to the people who…

In rural counties where access to emergency mental health resources is limited, Virtual Crisis Care…

This story was co-published with KFF Health News. Families of Idahoans with disabilities say their…

Mud season is not something Chambers of Commerce feature. Even those of us who love winter have…

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily…

This story was originally published by Resource Rural. When William Barber III looks across the vast…

When local officials in rural Wiscasset, Maine, voted on November 4, 2025, to pause a data center…

At first blush, the structures in New Mexico built by the Chacoan people and those in Ohio traced to…