Americans are ditching big cities for rural states in 2026, with 88% of movers seeking affordable living and outdoor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rural areas saw a 16.6% increase in people experiencing homelessness between 2023 and 2025; urban areas saw a 9.4% increase.(Stock ...

The digitization of rural healthcare is at a critical juncture, and efforts are underway to address the longstanding challenges, physician shortages, a rising wave of hospital closures, geographic ...

Poverty is most often thought of as an urban problem, but 25 percent more poor people live in small towns or in the country than in metropolitan areas. Of the 200 counties in the United States that ...

Des Moines, Iowa — Pessimism about the country's future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what's ahead for the U.S., according to a new survey from the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Rural communities all over America are shrinking. Consolidation of farms and agribusinesses ...

For decades, as the American economy tilted toward white-collar work, big urban counties thrived. Cities like New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco boomed on the back of fast-growing service ...

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Rep. Gail Griffin introduced a bill that would expand who can take groundwater from the vicinity of the town of Salome to big Arizona cities.

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Homelessness may not look the way many imagine it, particularly in rural Indiana. Rural areas saw a 16.6% increase in people experiencing homelessness between 2023 and ...