A wide-ranging proposal dubbed the "rural renaissance bill" is back and ready to be heard by the full chamber in January.

To inhabit the rural today is neither to revive idyllic images of the past nor to project technological utopias onto the ...

Rural Oklahoma's homeless population is vastly undercounted due to challenges with the federal Point-In-Time census. Advocates say the count, designed for urban areas, fails to capture homelessness ...

As a family doctor practicing in the small Kansas town of Fredonia, Jennifer McKenney juggles a far wider range of duties than her urban counterparts typically do. She provides colonoscopies to her ...

More rural hospitals have closed or are planning to close their labor and delivery units in 2025 than in 2024, bringing the total number of closures since the end of 2020 to 116, according to the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A UK-based charity has installed solar photovoltaic systems in all 9,000 households of a rural village in Malawi, Kasakula. The nonprofit has ...

As the President and CEO of the Community Health & Wellness Center of Greater Torrington, my goal is to work with our dedicated staff to help our patients get and stay healthy and live high-quality ...

CYNTHIANA, Ky. — A crowd filed into the pews of a church chapel in this small bluegrass farming community. Light poured through stained glass windows, falling at Allegra Frazier Schawe-Lane’s bare ...

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MEXICO, Mo. — It’s been more than three years since the closure of Audrain Community Hospital, ending more than a century of continuous local care in the mid-Missouri community. Once a cornerstone of ...

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In rural parts of the U.S., 36 percent of jobs that pay enough for an individual to be self-sufficient require at least a bachelor’s degree, yet only 25 percent of rural workers hold such degrees.