Rural areas

There's an electric vehicle charging desert in Wyoming and private businesses are taking matters into their own hands. The state remains hesitant.

Ford needed a sewer line to build its $5.6 billion plant in Tennessee. But neighboring communities now have to build their own wastewater system to accommodate new residents who come for the new plant jobs.

Updating old cattle trails, logging roads and wildlife migration trails could provide a crucial boost to local economies, some say.