The Vermont Council on Rural Development’s Climate Catalyst Innovation Fund supports local innovative climate projects for ...

Penny Blue was walking up the stairs of her Union Hall, Va. home in 2013 when a blood vessel burst in her brain. "I actually felt the pop in my head when it happened," she told USA TODAY. After ...

Iowa will receive an infusion of $152 million in federal money toward 19 rural development projects across the state in what U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins called an "unprecedented" effort ...

Today’s White House memo “The One Big Beautiful Bill is a Historic Investment in Rural Healthcare” outlines in detail how the President’s landmark legislation makes historic investments in vulnerable ...

Tucked within the hundreds of pages of Republican-backed cuts to taxes and the social safety net known as the "big, beautiful bill" is a $50 billion fund called the Rural Health Transformation Program ...

Ten rural Georgia counties will receive a combined $8 million as part of the state’s second round of grants in an initiative to develop rural sites, Gov. Brian Kemp announced last week. The grants are ...

Jenna Batchelder and her husband Brad have been raising livestock for years. A grant from USDA Rural Development helped them branch out into a successful retail meat business. The USDA's Rural ...

The USDA Rural Development is a lifeline to economically depressed rural towns where Trump is popular but the Trump Administration has damaged the agency. It's been a turbulent couple of months at the ...

There are numerous challenges to providing high quality STEM education and workforce development in rural areas. Recognizing these challenges, the National Academies was directed to undertake a ...

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

About 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas. EVs remain a tough sell for those buyers—for reasons that have little to do with politics or obstinance. EV charging infrastructure is scarce in ...