Rural Life

As part of a program with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the East Texas Council of Governments will receive guidance on how to execute more than 60 broadband access projects across its 14-county region.

Experts say community paramedicine programs, which involve paramedics checking in on people with known health issues before an emergency happens, can cut costs and ease strains on health care systems in rural areas.

The $107 million center will serve students in health care fields such as nursing, occupational therapy and physical therapy.

Bigger cities like Lubbock can unintentionally suck health care resources and professionals from smaller towns, creating what one local expert calls the “doughnut effect.”

Fatal crashes in rural areas accounted for 51% of Texas’ 4,489 traffic fatalities in 2021, even though only about 10% of the state’s population lives in a rural area, according to data from the state’s department of transportation.

Downtowns are deserted, hospitals are closing, teachers are leaving. Every part of life in rural Texas is harder — but it’s worth saving.

About 3 million people live in rural parts of the state, and this year they’ve gotten more visits from Democratic candidates.

A nurse practitioner is returning to his hometown to provide health care as rural hospitals close and it becomes harder to access preventive care.

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,...