Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on efforts to attract more people to live and work in rural America. The civilization-scrambling COVID-19 pandemic is reordering millions of lives ...

IN the great forward movement of the times, the country is far behind the city. Modern improvements have obtained slowly among the farmers. Machinery has taken the place of men everywhere, even to a ...

Feb. 20This map shows every rural county in America, areas where the coronavirus outbreak initially was slow to spread. Humboldt County in Northern California was the first rural county to report a ...

Rural country in California to lose its only hospital Hundreds of rural hospitals across the U.S. are at risk of closing according to advocacy groups. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz reports on Glenn County, CA ...

The United States must rethink how it invests in rural communities. The current economic crisis in the United States requires a renewed commitment to investing in rural communities in order to ensure ...

This article was originally published byIndian Country Today and is republished here with permission. Recently, Paul Krugman shared his thoughts about the decline of rural America: “There are powerful ...

Many rural counties would be without any child-care centers were it not for Head Start, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress, which details the role the federal ...

Those of us who grew up in a rural environment refer to it as livin’ in the country. “Bless your heart” and “we’re fixin’ to make supper,” are just a couple of rural-isms we former country dwellers ...

David McCullough's phone rang. It was Home Town Donuts in Johnson City, and their internet service was down. He raced through his house to find his laptop, which would allow him to diagnose the issue, ...