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On a chilly spring morning in downtown Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a town of around 2,400 in the…

This story is co-published with KFF Health News. Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on…

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I grew up in rural America. My home county in South Dakota spans more than 2,800 square miles,…

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

Thawing from a difficult winter, Minnesotans in small towns across the state joined the third wave…

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

For some rural Texans, the closest link to a doctor may now be the local library. Across the state,…

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

In the parking lot outside of City Hall, I Googled two questions: what’s a referendum and what’s a…

A shipping container in Fort Davis is at the center of a new experiment in bringing telehealth to an…

Yonder Radio is a new, free, hour-long show that is fresh every week and designed to help fill…

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

Most of us know someone who can be found daily (or even multiple times a day) at a rural restaurant:…

From monetary costs to physical proximity, receiving health care in the rural Ozarks – and beyond –…

A new online dashboard will allow policymakers in Tennessee to move beyond superficial data and take…