Restaurants may not be plentiful out here, but they’re important to rural communities. So let’s not forget the challenges they face doing business in the boondocks. Most of us know someone who can be ...

After being pushed out of his home church, Daniel Rogers resolved to discover what he believed in. Now he’s helping others do it too. Daniel Rogers outside North Broad Street Church in Albertville, ...

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This year, my part of rural northern Wisconsin got hit with a March blizzard that dropped 30-plus inches of fresh snow. That's a lot of weight on a roof.

This was the 2025 Fire on the Mountain festival, an annual celebration of the art of blacksmithing. Standing under one of the tents was Scotty Utz, a blacksmith with the organization RAWtools ...

Mildred Trammell Elliott taught school for 46 years. She spent just over half of that span in Eastern Kentucky. Her arduous introduction to the profession ...

Data center developments have sparked local opposition in small towns across the Midwest as residents express concerns over water, energy, and environmental degradation. (Photo by Julia Tilton/Daily ...

For some rural Texans, the closest link to a doctor may now be the local library. Across the state, libraries are helping residents, particularly older ...

This story is co-published with KFF Health News. Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on the Missouri health insurance exchange that covers ...

Thawing from a difficult winter, Minnesotans in small towns across the state joined the third wave of nationwide ‘No Kings’ ...

The rural coalfield county of Wise in southwest Virginia is one of about 75 communities nationally that has gone through a rigorous process to acknowledge and commemorate lynchings that occurred there ...