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When almost 60 eager would-be medics arrive at the UK’s newest medical school on Tuesday, instruction in areas such as anatomy and physiology will be supplemented…

“People gone; buildings empty: this is the fact of daily life in the countryside,” lamented the author Liang Hong in her bestselling account China in One…

About six months ago, a friend and I took our kids along to the shopping centre in Ballarat for some school holiday activities. When I rocked…

In rural parts of the U.S., 36 percent of jobs that pay enough for an individual to be self-sufficient require at least a bachelor’s degree, yet only…

Kids play on old playground equipment during recess in Sleetmute, Alaska. The Legislature has largely ignored rural school districts’ repair requests. Emily Schwing/KYUK hide caption toggle…

For decades, thousands of residents in California’s agricultural heartland couldn’t use their wells because the water was too contaminated with pesticides. In December, the Biden administration…

Abby DuFour, WCHG news reporter and afternoon host of the show DuFour Du Jour, cues up the next song in her broadcast at the station in…

In the spotless kitchen of a white clapboard house in the Appalachian mountains, a retired deacon, a regional jail counsellor and I form an impromptu book…

Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its Same-Day and Next-Day delivery services to over 4,000 small cities and towns across rural U.S. This expansion…

Medical debt financing and “patient access” companies are pitching their services to struggling rural hospitals nervous about keeping the doors open, as congressional Republicans consider healthcare…