CLIFTON FORGE, Virginia — Beth Macy stood at a lectern in front of a little more than 50 people in the basement of the ...

For nearly 20 years, the United States Department of Education has helped fund Full-Service Community School programs in ...

Tennessee will receive more than $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds. Experts fear the money isn’t reaching people who ...

Local anti-poverty groups have had to scramble and scale back this year as the Trump administration targeted safety-net ...

That light was especially symbolic at Christmas when settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them Scot-Irish — faced hard ...

What contributes to rural livability in the US? It depends on who you are and what you want from your community.

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had ...

The demise of the coal industry left much of Appalachia in economic tatters, with lost jobs, spoiled water, and depopulated ...

In rural Appalachian areas of Tennessee and Kentucky, Josh Abbotoy operates a real estate company called Ridgerunner. And he ...

In a gesture both symbolic and strategic, the General Assembly declared July 6 as World Rural Development Day, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.