Rural News

Nebraska battles its largest wildfire ever at 600,000 acres while energy crisis and fuel theft surge strain rural farmers and homeowners nationwide.

A Maryland study exposes rural dementia care shortfalls, AT&T pledges a quarter-trillion dollars on network expansion, and West Texas shows how wind energy revenue can keep seniors in their communities.

A roundup of the week's rural stories — from satellite broadband reaching the countryside to farmhouse design, agricultural labour shortages, dark sky tourism, and climate-smart farming experiments.

A rough week for rural services — Dr. Oz pitched AI healthcare avatars and got ripped apart for it, more urbanites traded city life for small towns, and the feds pulled passport processing from libraries.

Ag leaders are sounding alarms about farm failures while federal broadband cuts roll back rural internet progress. Meanwhile, a new guaranteed income initiative and global crop damage round out a busy week.

This week brought retail shutdowns, a rice surplus disaster in Mississippi, and storm damage to coastal homes — but also some good news about small farms and broadband.

More than 100 rural hospitals have closed since 2005. Meanwhile, Starlink won approval for thousands more satellites and Larry Ellison bought out a Florida campsite. Here's what happened this week.

A federal judge saved $12 million in kids' health funding, dairy farmers are bleeding money, Wyoming approved a giant data center, and other stories from the week.

Federal funding cuts are gutting public radio and rural healthcare, Brazil just became the world's top beef producer, and a 23-year-old duo bet $300K on a wellness cabin in Virginia. Here's what mattered this week.

This week's rural roundup: African youth are choosing farms over cities, a ranching couple donated their land to keep it working, and UK farmers won their fight against inheritance tax changes.

This week: the feds want to tie $50 billion in healthcare money to political compliance, Indiana farmers are cashing in on solar leases, and a Georgia detention center is hogging all the ambulances. Healthcare Funding With Strings Attached The Trump administration wants to condition $50 billion in rural healthcare...

Water fights near data centres, rich Americans buying up the Cotswolds, families moving to small towns to save money, and kids with brain tumours getting worse care just because of where they live. That was the week. Water Wars In Oregon, communities living near Amazon Web Services data centres are finding elevate...