This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Standing atop Ferry Butte, Frances Goli scanned the more than half a million acres of ...

As counties across Wisconsin sell off publicly-owned nursing homes to private companies, communities worry that privatization will bring understaffing, ...

Beckie Irvin crested the rocky hilltop in her truck. She threw it in park and joined Cobra Thomas and Beverly Garland, the ...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Medication-delivering drones and telehealth at local libraries are among the ideas state leaders ...

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While rural residents are facing a growing mental health crisis, an initiative to direct them to the help they need is seeing success across the country.

Starr Lodge Four of us sleep in borrowed beds at Starr Lodge; the fifth, our host — the one who left our Pennsylvania town decades ago for northern ...

Quiet and contemplative, the Netflix film "Train Dreams" offers a moving meditation on how a changing world affects us all.

What do queer Appalachians and a serpent-handling preacher have in common? More than you might think. “American culture ...

With commodity prices collapsing and costs of farming rising, the lack of government assistance adds to farmers’ worries about the viability of their operations. For Wendy Johnson, a livestock and ...

The third annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional ...

October was LGBTQ History month thanks to a history teacher from rural Missouri. Rodney Wilson made history in 1994 when he came out as gay to his St.