In a crowded field of major names vying to replace Maine’s term-limited Gov. Janet Mills (D), Troy Jackson, a 5th generation logger from rural Maine who is running in the state’s Democratic primary, ...

Not far from where I live in Columbia County, New York, is a wonderful neighbor called Churchtown Dairy. With its iconic round barn, a cathedral-like structure 80 feet in diameter built with tall ...

In 2018, Richard Ojeda, a retired U.S. Army major, ran for Congress as a Democrat in West Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, where, two years ealier, Donald Trump had won by 50 points. Although ...

In September, Breanne Green was researching rising energy prices when she came across a public notice for a $1 billion, 1,07-acre data center proposal in Howell Township, Michigan, where she lives.

This story was published with permission from The Rural Route Review. Recent headlines have been filled with renewed talk from the Trump administration about taking over Greenland, perhaps seizing it ...

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The election results reported in this story were updated on December 4, 2024, when the last House race, in California’s 13th Congressional District, was called. Donald Trump was elected the nation’s ...

Until recently, if you drove down the main street in Cairo, Illinois, a majority Black community at the southernmost point of the state, you wouldn’t have been able to find a grocery store. Like many ...

Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press), begins and ends in the same place: a farm outside of Waco, Texas, where in ...

“If both rural and urban people have the same set of facts with which to express their concerns, perhaps they can reach common conclusions,” writes Gilles Stockton in his new book, Feeding a Divided ...

Dustin Watson looks over the pastures and woodlands he grew up on. Behind him is the farmhouse his great-grandfather built, not far from the chicken coops and tractor sheds his grandfather raised ...