rural America

States are spending rural health dollars on tech startups, betting that untested companies will succeed where doctors have vanished and hospitals have collapsed.

Lincoln Hospital would be the 12th rural Maine hospital in a decade to lose its labor and delivery unit.

Veterinarians in the countryside are aging out. Replacing them is tricky, as it is a remote, around-the-clock lifestyle, often with lower pay than vet jobs in the city.

Almost everyone in Thomasville, Alabama, has a story about how access to the local hospital — now closed — helped them in a crisis. This is Nichole Stinson’s.

A $100,000 fee on H-1B visas creates barrier for short-staffed rural health systems

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

Most day care centers cater to parents with 9-to-5 jobs. New funding could help child care facilities expand their offerings.

When thousands of Amazon packages arrived overnight, it wreaked havoc on a post office in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Cities are home to high-paid business services and rural areas have lost manufacturing, contributing to the 23% gap in earnings.

The Biden administration is eyeing nuclear as one solution to ‘clean’ energy, but as a new nuclear plant moves into a rural community in Wyoming, there’s another challenge — housing shortages for workers.