Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors ...

America’s rural population is declining for the first time in history. In Georgia, it amounts to a demographic crisis. This ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a $50 billion investment into improving health care in rural areas in the U.S., the largest ever funding boost of this kind. More than 60 ...

Dom Holmes, 28, has learned something important in 10 years of organizing progressives in rural Pennsylvania: You can't just show up when you need people to turn out to vote. You have to sit and ...

More than half of the 500 fastest-growing U.S. counties between 2020 and 2023 had fewer than 50,000 residents. Nationwide, only about 4 in 10 counties have a mobile-crisis team and most small to ...

Cuts to food assistance, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, will hit the nation's poor hard and its rural poor the hardest. According to the Food Research & Action Center, "While 11.1 percent of the U.S.

ERIE — Few outside of those who live there understand what the county of Erie’s future holds for its economic future. Is it rural? A port? A city? A College town? A beach town? A faded Rust Belt hub ...