Ellen Wolter doesn’t see rural and urban communities as worlds apart. Learn about conversations that are bridging the two ...

Voters’ partisanship has long varied by the type of community they live in. Those in urban counties mostly align with the Democratic Party, while the reverse is true among those in rural counties. In ...

There has been a long-standing gap between the earnings of rural and urban workers. In fact, the divide may be widening. In cities, people earn about 23% more than people in rural areas, according to ...

Rural environments are often difficult to define in administrative and professional contexts and carry notable biases and complexities. Population and density thresholds are the most common ...

We can bridge the rural-urban divide in our state Re: “Why rural Coloradans feel ignored — a resentment as old as America itself,” Aug. 24 commentary Years ago the Colorado Humanities Council (as it ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

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Some residents of Strafford, Vt., are trying to preserve their general store by buying it and hiring an operator with a promise to keep it local. In many New England towns, the local general store is ...