Do you live in a rural area? For most of us, that question is relatively easy to answer. We can simply look outside of our windows and make an assessment. This simple question, however, becomes ...

How do you know if you live in the city or the country? For some, any place without a Whole Foods is rural. For others, a stoplight is a harbinger of urban sprawl. The federal government has more than ...

[imgbelt img=timsilosandsky530.jpg]With so much federal spending under review, we need a clearer, sharper picture of what’s rural. Spending on ag alone doesn’t tackle the problem of rural development.

The small town of Houston, Missouri, is off the beaten path and has only 2,500 residents, but it still doesn't meet the definition of "rural" in some federal programs. Small towns far from big cities ...

The final story in NPR's week-long series "On the Road to Safety" focused on the nation's most dangerous roads -- rural highways extending beyond cities and suburbs. I reported in that story the clear ...

A proposed definition of the term rural submitted by the Department of Agriculture to Congress last month could have broad implications for small towns across America - and not everyone is happy about ...

This review assessed the extent and strength of evidence regarding how rural people in the United States, Canada and Australia view health differently than their urban counterparts. The overarching ...