States are waiting to hear how much money they'll get from the Rural Health Transformation Program, the DHS is incentivizing local law enforcement to join the federal immigration crackdown and Texas is creating its own Appalachian Trail.
Farmers face skyrocketing healthcare costs if Congress fails to act this month, residents of communities without mental health resources are getting trained themselves and a flood-devasted Texas theater group vows, 'the show must go on.'
Native American tribes are left out of a new federal Rural Health Transformation Program, cold temperatures are burdening rural residents with higher energy prices and Missouri archivists says documenting queer history in rural communities is critical amid ongoing attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.
Texans have agreed to spend billions to improve their water systems, ICE appears to be readying a detention center along Oregon's picturesque coast and a Georgia community echoes a familiar refrain with concerns about massive AI data centers.
Carbon credit markets help rural property owners in Maine and other states keep their land, residency programs aim to bring more doctors to rural Montana and pollinators encounter politics at the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
A voting shift by Virginia's rural Republicans helped Democrats win the November governor's race; Louisiana is adopting new projects to help rural residents adapt to climate change and as Thanksgiving approaches, Indiana is responding to more bird flu.
Farmers are being squeezed by trade wars and the government shutdown, ICE tactics have alarmed a small Southwest Colorado community where agents used tear gas to subdue local protestors and aquatic critters help Texans protect their water.
States like Vermont are learning the hard way that FEMA funds for natural disasters are not guaranteed, folks in the Adirondacks' Lake George have developed a model for reducing salt runoff and microplastics are common in Minnesota's waterways.
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.