SIOUX FALLS, SD / ACCESS Newswire / December 9, 2025 / When a medical emergency happens in rural America, distance, staffing shortages, and fragmented communication can stand between a patient and ...

Federal funds will again flow to districts with national forest land—but broader funding uncertainties remain.

The U.S. House has reauthorized the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which provides funding to ...

Dozens of health care organizations have asked the Trump administration to shield the doctors, nurses, and techs they need to ...

Is rural America really representative of the typical stereotypes? Popular culture gets a lot wrong about the rural USA. Here ...

Last night, the House passed the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act, which reauthorizes the program for FY24-FY26.

To inhabit the rural today is neither to revive idyllic images of the past nor to project technological utopias onto the ...

Federal rural schools funding goes to counties with large swaths of untaxable federal land. California is set to receive over ...

In the United States, severe maternal morbidity and mortality is climbing—a reality that is especially challenging for rural communities, which face declining access to obstetric services. Severe ...

The number of practicing rural family physicians has declined in the United States in recent years, especially in certain regions of the country, according to a study published in Annals of Family ...

When Dr. Ed Paul visits Nogales, Arizona, he sees well-trained, hardworking doctors and nurses. Yet as in many smaller towns ...

Roughly 1 in 5 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 stereotypes.