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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.
The northern lights showed up in Florida, SNAP disruptions hit rural grocers hard, and a 3D-printed home in Nome, Alaska might change how we build in remote places.
A farmer stumbles on a surprisingly good deal grazing sheep beneath solar panels, the government shutdown throws rural families off SNAP benefits, and a Texas family turns down millions to save their land.
Standard smartphones can now connect to satellites in dead zones, Hurricane Melissa has torn through the Caribbean, and a government shutdown puts food assistance for millions on the line.
Dollar General is quietly becoming rural America's go-to grocer, a new study says farms could triple in size by 2100, and millions risk losing SNAP benefits as the government shutdown drags on.
A roundup of the week's rural stories — from a car-sized piece of NASA gear crushing wheat in West Texas to GOP moves against broadband subsidies, solar lease money for farmers, and budget cuts threatening rural hospitals.
A West Virginia couple shares a decade of off-grid finances, Meta's data center worries rural water users in Louisiana, and an English farm pulls off its first commercial rice harvest.