Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

In the public debate over Medicaid expansion in Kansas, a critical fact often gets lost: Large numbers of residents already ...

A building collapse last summer in Mt. Tabor and its aftermath set off a chain of events pitting town officials, neighbors, ...

"These rural communities are thriving and people are choosing to raise their families here for a variety of reasons. These stories need to be told." "My Town" is inspired by Hepola's own life; growing ...

The USDA oversees food production and much more. However, it has little direct power to reduce food prices – a centerpiece of ...

Columnist David Marcus, writing from Asheville, N.C., says the people are banding together and helping each other four months ...

As she travels her sprawling House district that stretches from the Rio Grande to the Arizona border, Gail Armstrong is ...

Two years after President Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture in 1862, he nicknamed it “the people’s department” because half of all Americans lived on farms at that time. Today, ...

The brainchild of former Twins Cities television and radio anchor Cory Hepola, it seeks to show rural America in a new light.