Firstly, what exactly constitutes rural and urban areas is important. A natural definition of rurality is to define it by ...

A powerful Senate committee has approved a bill that contains provisions hemp industry stakeholders say would devastate the ...

Medicaid is set to become a key issue in the battle over control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections now that ...

Roughly 20% of the nation’s public school students attend K-12 schools in rural areas, according to federal data. Just shy of ...

A new letter from Democratic lawmakers is raising concerns over sweeping health care cuts that could disproportionately ...

Get a warrant, government inspectors. After years of litigation — including a trip to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth ...

This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a ...

A study conducted by the University of Texas at Arlington, released last week, found that more than a third of people in ...

ODESSA — Rural Americans are likelier to develop chronic pain than their urban counterparts, a grim trend exacerbated by limited access to health care, age and economic status. A study conducted ...

Many Republicans — who hold a razor-thin majority in the House — acknowledge that they face an uphill battle in selling the ...

The Census actually doesn't have a proper definition for rural and just considers every area that isn't an "urban area" with ...

As Democrats mount a full-court press accusing Republicans of slashing Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich, the GOP will try to shift focus to other provisions.