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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a visit to Kansas City, Mo., he would ask the White House Rural Council to try to reduce the number of federal government definitions ...

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 ...

With the Rural Reads series, we’re trying something new. Every Friday, KBIA’s Health and Wealth Desk curates the week’s most interesting (or so we think) articles and reports on rural issues. What’s ...

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 question before us seems simple enough. Yet the answer is a bit more elusive than it may appear at first glance. At its ...

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 ...

[imgbelt img=yolo.jpg]Proposed changes in how the USDA defines eligibility for its development programs will improve the department’s service to rural communities, says the deputy undersecretary in ...

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 ...

Background The advent of patient-centered care challenges policy makers, health care administrators, clinicians, and patient advocates to understand the factors that contribute to effective patient ...

The Census 2027 offers a unique opportunity for revisiting the parameters and indicators for demarcation of rural and urban areas in India. In fact, the policies for rural and urban development in the ...