Rural News

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.

Maine lobstermen go electric, rural high schools bet on trades over college, and a massive new visa fee puts agricultural AI projects on ice. Plus: typhoon fallout, a postal strike, and a tropical bird 2,000 km from home.

Central Texas towns fight data center sprawl, Rio Grande Valley doctors ration care for the uninsured, and Republican lawmakers say farmers face "financial calamity" without immediate help.

New eco-housing projects in Morocco, Moldova, and across Europe are ditching conventional HVAC entirely, using old building tricks and local materials to keep costs and emissions low.

Starlink dropped its dish price to $175, ICE raids rattled rural factory towns, and Chinese soybean orders dried up right before harvest. Plus: rural healthcare funding questions, college towns booming, and the urban-to-rural dream meeting reality.