According to a 2025 article published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the share of residents at prime working ...

The livability of rural America will be partly driven by how well it connects to urban centers, but also, but creating local ...

Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map for increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math education opportunities and ...

When Chad Raines took over his family’s Texas cotton farm in 2008, he thought the going would be easy. That’s because their first year was relatively profitable — but the success was short-lived. “The ...

The Department of Agriculture will not be shy about asking Congress for help on cybersecurity and IT, the agency’s undersecretary for rural development nominee told senators Wednesday. Smith co-signed ...

Lake County and several of its municipalities have begun discussions to create ‘no annexation zones’ within the county’s Rural Protection Areas that would strengthen development controls over those ...

Andrew Fry, MD, grew up in a small rural Pennsylvania community about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg. He completed medical school and residency in the state and, after graduating last year, is now a ...

This web-based tool 16 integrates US Department of Agriculture RUCA codes with census tract data and electronic health record systems, meeting NIH HEAL Initiative Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, ...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopia's rural corridor development initiative, which is an extension of the broader concept of city corridor development, aims to bring similar improvements in the ...