Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why adults ages 25 to 44 are making the move to rural areas — and what's it like to embrace a slower pace of life. (Getty Creative ...

TRIMONT – Sinn Family Celebration of Life Center has cut out the middleman for their business and rural families by ...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map for increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math education opportunities and ...

These stars traded major cities for small towns and a more low-key way of life. Fame often comes with the assumption of gated ...

What drives economic growth in rural areas — jobs attracting people, or people attracting jobs? According to Amanda Weinstein of the Center on Rural Innovation, the answer may lie in an unexpected ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

O n the surface, Louisiana State University at Alexandria might seem like an institution in trouble. It’s a public regional campus in a rural swath of the state, located in a city of under 50,000 that ...

Homes on a hill in Sylva, North Carolina. (Photo by Elizabeth Albert / Flickr) When Karen Sicner and her husband John made the decision to relocate from metro Atlanta to build a new home on a two-acre ...

While Pennsylvania is best known for its marquee metropolises of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, its beating heart is, arguably, found within the farms, forests and rolling mountains that thousands of ...

Roughly one in five Americans live in rural areas — places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through ...

According to recent data, 40% of the U.S. population lives in a mental health professional shortage area.

The University of Wisconsin’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, in partnership with the Wisconsin Rural Partnerships Institute, hosted the first Wisconsin Rural Scholars Program this past ...