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From isolated mansions to eerie mountains, the backdrop of rural Vermont inspires the bestselling crime novels of author Eric Rickstad.
For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities.
Castlewood Treatment Center therapist Kim Callaway, rear, speaks with Sara, a 22-year-old client at the center for eating disorders in St. Louis. Treatment centers like these are rare in nonmetro ...
Early one late March morning, Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino was taking his partner to her job ...
As the automotive world presses ahead with a transition to electric vehicles (EVs), things are starting to feel a bit Field-of-Dreams-esque in rural areas. Until now, communities may have held back on ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the deadline for thousands of rural energy program grantees, who’ve been ...
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This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 minutes ...
Nearly 300,000 people have immigrated from abroad to nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties since 2020, driving most of the growth in rural America during ...