rural broadband

GREAT BEND, Kansas — Joey Bahr walks out to the front of his yard along a blacktop county road. He stops in a ditch and points to an orange-and-black sign…

From Texas Standard: The pandemic has been hard for everyone, but especially for those who don't have dependable access to high-speed internet. One...

As workplaces and schools go online to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many people are relying on a strong internet connection. But in some states, less...

Editor's note: This story is the first of a three-part series looking at the state of Colorado's efforts to get rural households connected to high-speed...

DODGE CITY — Kansas is bathed in shades of blue that stretch north to south, east to west. That’s not a reference to politics: It’s what the state looks…

From Texas Standard: Scientists are warning that new 5G internet connectivity could interfere with their ability to forecast the weather . Now, they're...

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, but the government may not have an accurate picture of who has access and who doesn't.

Crawling internet speeds in rural Kansas make trying to sell cattle online exasperating.Instead of uploading photos and videos of cattle for sale from…

From Texas Standard: In the 1930s, a young congressman named Lyndon Johnson decided he wanted to do something grand – on the scale of his hero, Franklin...

Amazon and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce see potential in rural America — if internet access is improved. A fifth of rural businesses already sell the…