Land is a scarce resource. We develop consumption-based land footprints (CBLF) for urban and rural U.S. residents to evaluate new levers for reducing land-demand by combining (1) direct land-use for ...

How an empty North Carolina rural hospital explains a GOP senator's vote against Trump's tax bill An empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why ...

Access to running water has been a pressing issue in many developing countries across the globe, and also continues to be a problem in some rural areas in the United States. Today, more than two ...

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a program providing subsidized internet and phone service to underserved communities across the United States. The vote was 6-3. Conservative groups challenged ...

Rock Spring Water Company rejected a $65K offer from the State College water authority to buy the system, delaying a permanent solution to shaky service.

Rural school leaders visited Pennsylvania's State Capitol on Monday to address the benefits of bipartisan education investments Fireball reports over Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee — what ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) today celebrated the Senate’s unanimous passage of their legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Forest Service’s Secure Rural ...

In rural Alaska, a village turns to solar and biomass energies to cut diesel and save money On a former military base in Galena, Alaska, a school that houses about 200 high school students teaches ...