In cities, people earn about 23% more than people in rural areas, according to new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That difference was more like 20% before the pandemic.

Ambulance New Brunswick is extending a pilot project that changes the way ambulances are organized in the province, with the goal of improving response times and taking pressure off staff. The initial ...

As the Republican Party has moved ever further into MAGAland, it has lost votes among educated suburban voters; but this has been offset by a drastic rightward shift in rural areas, which in some ...

RALEIGH, N.C. − A growing homeless crisis has been stretching to far-flung corners of the Tar Heel State, with tent encampments popping up in rural areas and demand for social services spiking ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal ...

The report takes stock of existing federal programs and provides recommendations for federal, state, and local action to improve STEM education and workforce development in rural areas. The committee ...

Seminole voters will decide in November if it should be tougher for developers to remove property from the county’s protected rural area and whether to strengthen protections for its natural lands.

The investment by Contest Every Race in rural areas marks an expansion of the group’s grants program, which gave $1.2 million to local parties in 2024 but has seen a surge in donor interest in ...

It now takes a simple majority of three votes of the five-member commission to change development restrictions within the rural area, and remove conservation protections within Seminole’s nearly ...