One of my favorite jobs as a rural fire department volunteer is helping at a field day for third graders in the Latchkey program at school. The year-long ...

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An analysis of the U.S. Forest Service’s Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) program found rural communities that have ...

Working in the Bob Marshall Wilderness for the Forest Service was Josh Vega’s dream job. On Friday, February 14, 2025 he was fired from that job, “based ...

If you’re wanting to win a world championship in cycling, a good start is to live in Nathrop, Colorado. Tucked beneath Mount Princeton of the Rocky ...

With at least 170 education department contracts shuttered, the future of a budding rural education research field is at stake.

When Edgeley Public Schools opened the doors of their new 11,000-square-foot Career Academy in rural North Dakota last fall, it wasn’t just an open house ...

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This story was originally published by The Conversation. Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live ...