The day before Hurricane Helene blew into Western North Carolina, Jeneal Hensley, a licensed family child care provider, was taking care of five children ...

Verlyn Rosenberger, 88, got involved with the progressive grassroots community organization Illinois People’s Action (IPA) 20 years ago. Over the decades, ...

The Georgia General Assembly just allocated millions of dollars to establish a new need-based scholarship. But experts warn that it won’t cover the cost ...

Matthew McConaughey stars as an eccentric beekeeper in a jubilant film that brings rural Oklahoma to the big screen.

Rural voters turned out in force across the 2026 primaries, shaping key races, and emerging as an electorate candidates cannot afford to overlook. In ...

The Trump Administration plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 2001 rule that protects public land from development. Many rural communities are worried that the rescinding could hurt their economies.

Plus, AI misinformation, rural-focused philanthropy, and "living room folk" music from Redd and the Paper Flowers.

Fifth-generation Montanan Brad Wilson stands beside a dirt road that leads to a century-old public trail that was abandoned by the U.S. Forest Service as part of a controversial land swap with the ...

In the landscape of rural development, structural longevity is often tied to the unpredictable cycles of federal appropriations. But a quiet economic ...

Let’s go to La Junta, Colorado, for their Tarantula Fest!” is what no sane person should exclaim. But I did because I’m terrified of spiders. I don’t ...

This article was copublished with Canary Media, a newsroom covering clean energy. Jeff Hough did not pull any punches. What his fellow Republican county ...