Rural Americans face higher Alzheimer's risk but often lack access to specialists and early diagnostic tools, prompting calls ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Megan Langley, right, executive director of StrengthenND, speaks Oct. 22, 2025, at Grand Farm near Casselton, North Dakota, as ...

Life in rural America comes with its challenges, and those challenges are highlighted during election season. Sam Van Wetter, a resident of the small town of Boulder, Utah, knows it. So, he works to ...

Rural Minds, a local nonprofit organization focused on mental health in rural America, has recently launched a new program focused on connecting farmers to mental health resources. The new program, ...

Pictured is Jeff Winton, founder and chairman of Rural Minds, during the filming of the Roadtrip Nation program. Submitted photo MAYVILLE — Rural Minds, a local nonprofit focused on mental health in ...

There’s just something about living in the country or a rural town in America. Maybe you have to grow up there to understand and appreciate it fully, but it is truly a wonderful place for families to ...

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...

Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South Carolina’s Allendale County has looked overseas for help. A quarter of the teachers in the rural, high-poverty district come from other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ...

Roughly one in five Americans live in rural areas — places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through ...

Flags line a street in Troy, Ohio. Families in small towns and rural areas are particularly reliant on Head Start, the free federal child care program, but recent turmoil in the program has them ...

As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic. Gone are the days of seniors walking ...