Reductions in staff and office closures loom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the agency has opened a ‘path’ to release $10.8 billion, which includes $2.5 billion in loan subsidies, ...

WASHINGTON (WISH) — Steve Howell is the new rural development director for Indiana, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced. Howell will be responsible for implementing President Donald Trump ...

Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal government could help. Rural emergency hospitals can get extra funding, ...

Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

The Department of Agriculture will not be shy about asking Congress for help on cybersecurity and IT, the agency’s undersecretary for rural development nominee told senators Wednesday. Smith co-signed ...

In this April 5, 2010 photo, Lisa Kartek stands near an open field and looks toward the home she purchased in Annandale, Minnesota, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump administration. Rural hospitals and their obstetrics wards have been closing at a ...

2026 is byeongo (丙午年), the year of the red horse. Along with dogs, pigs, chickens and cattle, horses have been with humans for a long time. Since around 3000 B.C., they have served as a means of ...

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

John Butera will serve as the USDA Rural Development state director for Maine, replacing Rhiannon Hampson, who left the post in January for a position with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Butera ...