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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. ...
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. Th...
A busy week: police went after gangs stealing farm equipment, rural doctor numbers kept falling, and — of all things — TV antennas are back. Here's what happened. Farm Crime Gets a Crackdown Poli...
Alaska is dumping broken school buildings on broke districts, Maine clinics are shutting down over Medicaid cuts, and Starlink just hit two million subscribers. Plus cattle tracking in Brazil, wildcat reintroduction in England, and tiny homes in Sweden.