As this partisan divide suggests, there are real and distinctive differences in people’s ways of life and their outlooks in ...

Why? Industrial developers are increasingly searching for larger swaths of land for their data centers, warehouses and ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has changed what is classified as "urban" and "rural." That can have major economic ramifications.

People who live in rural communities often face additional hurdles in accessing health care, which can hinder timely ...

Kentucky has submitted its application for a new federal grant program touted as a way of stabilizing the rural health system ...

I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. This week, I look at how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act may bring big changes to a corner of higher ...

Along the Canadian border in north central Washington’s Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles away and infrastructure is sparse, the Okanogan County Child Development ...

The University of Northern Colorado in Greeley is constructing the state’s third medical school, the UNC College of Osteopathic Medicine. Its first class is expected next year. Founding Dean Dr. Beth ...

Walter S. DeKeseredy receives funding from West Virginia University.. I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on ...

Only 41% of rural hospitals in the U.S. deliver babies, according to a report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and ...