A few of the rural counties given the option to accelerate reopening are moving more cautiously. Grays Harbor County leaders discussed the pros and cons of getting approval from the state at a ...

Residents in every Washington county will have at least one insurance option through the state health exchange next year. Just a couple of weeks ago, that wasn't the case. When health insurers in ...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has come around to the idea of a county-by-county approach to relaxing the statewide stay-at-home order. Ten rural counties get to ask first to reopen at an accelerated ...

Nine rural counties in Washington are eligible to apply to the state Secretary of Health this week to move to the next stage in Gov. Jay Inslee's four-phase reopening plan.

Washington's rural counties have slowly recovered from high unemployment. But even though many are in driving distance of Seattle's boom, they still face severe obstacles.

All told, more than 1.8 billion prescription opioid pills flowed into Washington state from 2006 to 2012, with the majority of the supply coming from the top national manufacturer, SpecGx LLC, and ...

I was curious what that shift looked like geographically. So, using data from MIT Election Lab, I created a map showing the shifts by county since 2000.

Stacker pulled data from the 2010 Census Urban and Rural Classification to compile a list of the most rural county in each state. Alabama: Baldwin County | Total rural area: 1,484 square miles (93 ...