Rural Life

American Public Media Research Lab data shows that 24 rural hospitals have closed in Texas since 2005 — the most of any state in the U.S.

The mind of Keilan Banks is perpetually caught between two worlds. In one of them — what many of us would call the "real world" — he attends art school at…

From Texas Standard: Travis Krause grew up on the South Texas plains of Medina County, on land his family has been tending to since 1846. Krause always...

1.8 million Texans lack broadband Internet access, and most of them live in rural Texas. Hundreds of millions of federal dollars could become available,...

1.8 million Texans lack broadband Internet access, and most of them live in rural Texas. Studies from the U.S. chamber and others have shown the massive...

The conventional wisdom is that city life makes you fat and rural life keeps you trim. A new study looks at the numbers to see if that holds true.

The people who live in the unincorporated Dallas County community of Sandbranch don't have running water. Pastor Eugene Keahey was working to change that,…

Hospital-owned clinics that are miles away should be reimbursed at the same rates as an independent doctor, but not more, Medicare says. That new rule could save taxpayers $380 million in 2019.

From Texas Standard: Every five years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture produces a count of all the country's farms, ranches, crops, livestock and...

More Texans than the population of San Antonio lack broadband internet access, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Fifteen million...

From Texas Standard: You may have noticed a lot more dollar stores than you did just a few years ago. Since 2011, numbers of the discount stores have...

From Texas Standard: Texas ranks 28th in teacher salaries, according to the most recent data . Teachers here make about $7,000 less than the national...