rural

On any given night, an estimated 943 people in rural Kansas are homeless. But the actual numbers are likely far greater.

Tisa Mason job comes with a lot of the challenges many colleges face: building enrollment, working to keep college affordable and the lengthy battle with Covid-19, both here and at the campus Fort Hays State helps operate in China.

A lack of child care options in rural Kansas leaves families desperate and threatens the future of small towns.

Rural areas are often the last to receive broadband. The lack of broadband is similar to another issue that rural communities faced decades ago — rural...

On a Tuesday evening earlier this month, outside Ralls’ City Hall, nearly two dozen residents waited in the 90-degree Texas heat. For two hours, they...

The county's history with public health has made it more open to getting shots that could end the pandemic.

The federal government plans to send payments to Black farmers this summer to compensate for loans and aid they lost out on during generations of discrimination. In Nicodemus, Kansas, farmers say the help has come too late.

Even as demand for rural housing grows, a shortage of lumber, labor and lending means developers are often priced out of building new affordable homes in small towns.

Nationwide, more and more people are surviving childhood. But researchers found those improvements might not be as big in rural areas. A report last...

NEODESHA, Kansas — Three hundred middle and high schoolers filed into their school auditorium last week in the small, southeast Kansas town of Neodesha,...