Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Rural communities all over America are shrinking. Consolidation of farms and agribusinesses ...

Poverty is most often thought of as an urban problem, but 25 percent more poor people live in small towns or in the country than in metropolitan areas. Of the 200 counties in the United States that ...

As Charleston County moves forward with 2026 transportation tax, leaders of rural towns like Hollywood and Ravenel are ...

Co-ops serve about 12% of the U.S. population but operate over 40% of the nation's power lines, making their infrastructure ...

Rising home affordability is spreading beyond cities, spotlighting rural areas where buyers can find lower prices and growing housing demand.

Andrew Tait has a long workday. He bookends shifts as a warehouse supervisor for a nearby factory with early morning and late night chores on his family's small farm in rural Shenandoah Valley, ...