The expired farm bill leaves many popular programs in limbo, a complicated fight is brewing over four-day school weeks in New Mexico, while volunteers help preserve the state's 300-year old Pecos Mission Church.
Rural Americans are cutting back on basics amid struggles to afford child care, conservation groups have appealed a ruling that prevents Iowans from knowing how much factory farms pollute their air and renewable energy is coming to Arizona's ancient pueblos.
Rural grassroots organizers in Arizona band together to take on industrial developers, health care cuts threaten California's homegrown solutions to rural doctor shortages and the Navajo Nation is reshaping the future of its education system.
Iowans urge Congress to defeat legislation meant to prohibit lawsuits against chemical companies when their products cause cancer, Texas aims to help those in residential care facilities survive extreme weather events while other states turn to 'resilience hubs' for natural disaster support.
Champions of rural America want Congress to support programs that drive local success, cuts to Medicaid in Idaho could leave more rural mothers without care and Black clergy double as healthcare professionals in a Virginia Church.
Mobile MRI units in North Dakota improve residents' health and save hospitals money, owners of older manufactured housing are getting help to cope with extreme temperatures and western states restore river health using a low-tech 'sticks and stones' approach.
The Navajo Nation plans to double the money it spends on students and tribal colleges, oyster farmers in Maine combat air and water pollution with a switch to electric boats, and Ohioans celebrate a court ruling on coal ash pollution.
Residents in Southwest Colorado communities are pushing back against ICE arrests, rural towns hit by catastrophic weather events are sharing recovery advice and maternity care is getting harder to find in rural America.
A federal anti-poverty program that's helped millions of rural Americans is on the chopping block, Minnesota is trying to save more dairy farms and a North Carolina group endeavors to preserve their indigenous language.
Tribally-run programs in states like South Dakota have improved Native American healthcare on reservations, rural Texas communities could lose revenue from abandoned wind and solar projects and shale drilling in Ohio has not produced promised results.
Climatologists are helping Appalachian states prepare for more intense and frequent hurricanes, Texas Hill Country ranchers are spending many thousands to recover from last month's flooding and manufactured home owners are vulnerable to heat-related illness and deaths.
A double whammy could be coming for SNAP recipients in states like Texas, construction of AI data centers is plowing ahead in Indiana and descendants of a historic Jewish farming settlement in New Jersey safeguard its legacy.
Experts are skeptical a new rural health slush fund will fill Medicaid gaps, Colorado officials protest public land management cuts and tribes and rural communities sue the EPA over cancelled funding for flood and climate mitigation projects.
America's news desert problem could get worse with massive funding cuts to public broadcasting, federal cuts to AmericaCorps will eliminate volunteers in rural Oregon and a 140-year old South Dakota church thrives by welcoming all.
Cuts in money for clean energy could hit rural mom and-pop businesses hard, Alaska's effort to boost its power grid with wind and solar is threatened and a small Kansas school district is attracting new students with a focus on agriculture.
Rural Americans are bracing for a disproportionate impact from federal funding cuts to mental health and substance use programs, and new federal policies have farmers from Ohio to Minnesota struggling to grow healthier foods and create sustainable food production programs.
Farmers embrace voluntary conservation programs but federal funding chaos is causing a rethink, a rural electric cooperative in Colorado hopes to reduce customer costs by going independent and LGBTQ+ teens say online support is a lifesaver.
A commissioner on the FCC contends the Trump Administration is weakening freedom of speech and the press, a New Mexico town is building an innovative green hydrogen plant and Texas could soon face even more rural hospital closures.
Hurricane Helene mobilized the community of Marshall, North Carolina in unexpected ways, giant data centers powering AI want cheap rural land but can face community pushback and ceramics made by Cherokee potters honor multiple generations.
Rural areas that could use more EV charging stations face a Catch-22, improving the mental health of children and teachers is the goal of a new partnership in seven states and a once segregated Mississippi movie theater is born again.