In the majority of nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties, the most popular Christian tradition is evangelicalism, according to my analysis of data from the ...

When Meredith Dean started the first Community Works chapters, she saw people reengaging in politics. “We were seeing more and more volunteers coming in ...

An empty 1,600-bed private prison has sat idly on land that was once a soybean field in rural Appleton, Minnesota since the prison failed and, as a ...

Across the country, states are grappling with how to allocate their portion of funds from the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) created in 2025.

Tune in for conversations about combating Applachian stereotypes through photography, maternal healthcare in Texas, building ...

For high school students from a small Eastern Kentucky county, competing in – and winning – a regional theater competition is a big deal. Even a bigger ...

The Best in Rural Writing Contest has returned for 2026. The contest, organized by the rural writing collective The Milk House, welcomes both fiction and ...

NC STAR Network uses a primary care environment to help meet people’s needs, because “Any door should be the right door when somebody wants treatment.” Zach White is opioid dependence treatment ...

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