As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic. Gone are the days of seniors walking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s, and many were abandoned by the mid-century. Up until the 1930s, ...

You know it’s presidential campaign season when all the candidates start making pilgrimages to small towns in Iowa and New Hampshire. All the visits to diners, handshakes and brief conversations with ...

Ashland, Kansas is a small town where life moves at a very different pace. With a population of just 783, the community offers a glimpse into traditional small-town America. This video explores daily ...

The livability of rural America will be partly driven by how well it connects to urban centers, but also, but creating local ...

Explore a charming small-town escape with rich history, peaceful scenery, friendly faces, and timeless rural character that ...

This is the time of year when Top 10 lists appear across a variety of categories and the towns and communities of rural America are a common focus of these lists as people seek out the perfect place ...

I grew up in rural America. My home county in South Dakota spans more than 2,800 square miles, larger than the state of ...

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...

Life in rural America comes with its challenges, and those challenges are highlighted during election season. Sam Van Wetter, a resident of the small town of Boulder, Utah, knows it. So, he works to ...

Rural small towns today might be shaped by Dollar General stores and rusty industrial plants, but many across the US were once lively brick-paved main streets where domestic manufacturing and ...