Rural towns plagued by deadly roads have won nearly $350 million this year to make them safer, a dramatic turnaround for communities that a USA TODAY investigation found had been left out of earlier ...

The national shortage of primary care physicians has been a concern for years, and a new study in the Annals of Family Medicine underscores how urgent the problem is and where the biggest pain point ...

This is the time of year when Top 10 lists appear across a variety of categories and the towns and communities of rural America are a common focus of these lists as people seek out the perfect place ...

The rural family physician workforce shrank 11% from 2017 to 2023, marking an ongoing shortage in primary care access, according to a study published in November in the Annals of Family Medicine. Lead ...

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 ...

The number of independent physicians in U.S. rural areas declined 43% over five years — from 21,956 in January 2019 to 12,467 in January 2024 — according to an Avalere study sponsored by the ...

After decades of young professionals flocking to large metros in search of well-paying jobs and lifestyle amenities, the American heartland is seeing a resurgence, with rural counties posting massive ...

PERRY, N.Y. (AP) — As a student in western New York’s rural Wyoming County, Briar Townes honed an artistic streak that he hopes to make a living from one day. In high school, he clicked with a college ...

Read full article: Jacksonville woman pleads guilty to smuggling weapons, goods, from US to Haiti PERRY, N.Y. – As a student in western New York's rural Wyoming County, Briar Townes honed an artistic ...

The stakes are high for every American but nowhere are these pressures more evident than in rural communities.