Matthew McConaughey stars as an eccentric beekeeper in a jubilant film that brings rural Oklahoma to the big screen.

Verlyn Rosenberger, 88, got involved with the progressive grassroots community organization Illinois People’s Action (IPA) 20 years ago. Over the decades, ...

In the landscape of rural development, structural longevity is often tied to the unpredictable cycles of federal appropriations. But a quiet economic ...

The Georgia General Assembly just allocated millions of dollars to establish a new need-based scholarship. But experts warn that it won’t cover the cost ...

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The Trump Administration plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 2001 rule that protects public land from development. Many rural communities are worried that the rescinding could hurt their economies.

Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center in Cuthbert, Georgia, shown here on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, closed in 2020. The Georgia state Senate passed a bill on March 14, 2024, that would let the ...

This article was copublished with Canary Media, a newsroom covering clean energy. Jeff Hough did not pull any punches. What his fellow Republican county ...

Plus, AI misinformation, rural-focused philanthropy, and "living room folk" music from Redd and the Paper Flowers.

Rural voters turned out in force across the 2026 primaries, shaping key races, and emerging as an electorate candidates cannot afford to overlook. In ...

A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice-monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural ...