From crowing roosters to the whiff of barnyard animals, the “sensory heritage” of France’s countryside will now be protected by law from attempts to stifle the everyday aspects of rural life from newcomers looking for peace and quiet.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the world toward a reliance on virtual education, but a new report shows that two-thirds of school-age children around the globe do not have internet access at home.
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Rural parts of the Lone Star State are facing a shortage of hospital beds, creating a perilous situation for small-town Texans who contract Covid-19.
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The political turmoil that has gripped Kyrgyzstan hasn’t reached the quiet village of Tash-Bashat in the mountains near the capital, where residents talk about the country’s feuding elites with resignation and disdain.
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside.
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As the coronavirus continues to circulate across the Lone Star State, having killed more than 11,000 Texans since the pandemic began, one far-flung county in the state’s remote western region hit a significant positive milestone in recent days: the number of active local cases fell to zero.
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With less than three months to go until Election Day, opinions here in Juneau County, Wisconsin, vary wildly, making it difficult to predict which way the area will go.
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Democrats tackled how to court rural voters during a meeting of the Democratic National Convention’s Rural Council on Tuesday, emphasizing that rallying rural America behind Joe Biden will require key infrastructure investments and a legitimate ground game to meet voters where they are.
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Metropolitan cities and their surrounding suburbs have seen population, education and income grow since 2000 as Americans leave more rural areas, but a new study found a generational divide has shaped how urban and suburban areas have developed over the last two decades.
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As coronavirus cases spike in major Texas cities like Houston and San Antonio, prompting the governor to order people to wear masks in public Thursday, small hospitals in the West Texas oil patch are reporting struggles and planning for an even tougher road ahead.
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Confirmed cases of Covid-19 are on the rise in Texas’ Big Bend region, where the one local hospital has only 25 beds and two ventilators.
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Hunger, early death, young pregnancy, and high school attrition are worst among rural, majority black communities across the South, and in Native American populations, according to a new study from Save the Children.
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It took an emergency for Garrett Burns and his wife to learn the kind of service McKenzie Regional Hospital gave to their rural Tennessee community.
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Kenedy County, Texas, is up front about its lack of accommodations. Large signs on its main highway, U.S. Route 77, say there are no services for 60 or 70 miles. There are no restaurants, gas stations or barbershops, no businesses at all, in the county seat Sarita.
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The reverend approached the makeshift pulpit and asked the Lord to help him make some sense of the scene before him: two caskets, side by side, in a small-town cemetery busier now than ever before.
Read moreTowns in West Texas are debating whether to follow the governor’s lead to reopen parts of the economy or keep
Read moreReflecting a crisis in rural hospitals, Blue Ridge Georgia Holdings and 109 (sic) affiliated hospitals have filed for bankruptcy, listing $1 billion to $10 billion in assets and liabilities.
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Calling New York a microcosm of the rest of the country, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that people who live in rural communities should not presume themselves safe from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreFor centuries on a small, forested island in the Baltic Sea, women in headscarves and striped red skirts have done most of the work: from farming to lighthouse keeping, leading church services and even dressing up as Santa at Christmas.
Read moreMore than half of U.S. counties had smaller populations in 2019 as compared with 2010, but in Texas, as so often happens, things got bigger, according to census data published Thursday.
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