Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why adults ages 25 to 44 are making the move to rural areas — and what's it like to embrace a slower pace of life. (Getty Creative ...

Social media influencers are using their platforms to share more than just aesthetic glimpses at ag life — they’re educating followers about rural realities, farm work and what it truly means to live ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of the problem is that people living in rural areas don't always have easy access to health care. cstar55/iStock via Getty ...

The idea of living off the grid—once the domain of hippies and doomsday preppers—has been steadily winning over a broader range of homebuyers, from remote-working young professionals to families ...

If town and village life is so much more sensible and attractive, why do so few people choose to live over the shop?

With an aging population and fewer physicians available, the burden on rural communities is set to grow. Rural men are dying earlier than their urban counterparts, and they're spending fewer of their ...

April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...

When I tell people I meet in big cities that I’m from a town of 700 people, the sort of place where everyone is cousins, I’m often met with a sympathetic wince. Most people presume I had a difficult ...

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 ...