Ellen Wolter doesn’t see rural and urban communities as worlds apart. Learn about conversations that are bridging the two ...

Voters’ partisanship has long varied by the type of community they live in. Those in urban counties mostly align with the Democratic Party, while the reverse is true among those in rural counties. In ...

Rural environments are often difficult to define in administrative and professional contexts and carry notable biases and complexities. Population and density thresholds are the most common ...

The single-lane, winding roads of rural Wisconsin can be tough to navigate. Sometimes, people living in rural communities who need specialty health care have to drive long distances to access it at ...

A team of researchers at West Virginia University recently developed artificial intelligence models that can diagnose heart ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

Thirty-two million Americans live in rural counties and have no access to multidisciplinary cancer care, and patients with cancer describe a greater number of unfavorable social determinants of health ...

Some residents of Strafford, Vt., are trying to preserve their general store by buying it and hiring an operator with a promise to keep it local. In many New England towns, the local general store is ...