Children in the most rural areas of the United States are as likely to die by gunshot as kids in the biggest cities, a new analysis of nearly 24,000 deaths finds. Not surprisingly, murders involving ...

A proposed pilot program designed to provide lunches to low-income children when school isn't in session will only be available to "rural," and not "urban" American children, according to a Politico ...

Thirty-five artists across four states are participating in a rural-urban solidarity initiative. One project in Minnesota connected elementary school students from St. James and Minneapolis. (Photo by ...

Where you live can shape your health and your prescription costs. Urban and rural communities differ not just in lifestyle and resources, but also in the medications people take and how much they pay ...

Congress has implemented a number of policies over the past four decades to boost access to care for rural Americans, who tend to be older and sicker compared with their urban counterparts. The ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...