About a year ago there was a video making its way around the internet. It was Carlos Valdez catching a football for a ...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick proposed changes to a federal broadband connectivity program that would favor Low ...

Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado, received more than 59,000 patient visits last year. That’s enough to treat ...

Environmental justice efforts at the ten U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional offices have stopped and employees have been placed on ...

This story was originally published by Grist. A Canadian mining company behind a massive new lithium mine in northern Nevada has received a $250 million ...

According to a new advocacy group, the key to getting healthcare to rural communities may be to bring mobile health clinics to them instead of asking ...

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Our public schools are closing, and these closures hurt rural children and rural communities. As a rural education researcher, I study school ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Two inches of raw sewage. Persistent chemical leaks. Pipes insulated with asbestos. A bat infestation.

The trees need us and a good reminder of this reality is “The Lorax,” a children’s book by Dr. Seuss. Its colorful pages tell of a whimsical world ...

Social worker and filmmaker Laura Norton-Cruz remembers vividly finding out that she was pregnant and feeling like she’d just been “thrown to the ...

A new study has found that rural county health officials can use information from funeral homes and obituaries to identify community health emergencies.