States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but it's not just hospitals vying for the ...

Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors ...

The City Council denied a conditional use permit request made by NB2A Investments, LLC, otherwise to be known as Roy'zzz Premium Cannabis, Monday night due to concerns about the proposed location at ...

The Trump administration’s 2026 budget request before Congress would eliminate funding for the USDA’s 502 direct loan program ...

Cuts to food assistance, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, will hit the nation's poor hard and its rural poor the hardest. According to the Food Research & Action Center, "While 11.1 percent of the U.S.

Day by day, nail by nail, Austin Reese is hammering away at what will soon be his new home in the high country. Reese, who ...

The best window to understanding our current price mess is to review current U.S. farm policy, writes Thomas Dorr.

It may not seem like it right now, but at some point the federal government will get back to work. When it does, an area man will be playing the lead role in managing the United States Department of ...

Iowa ranks eighth in the nation for the oldest stockpile of houses, according to some estimates. The former director of USDA ...

On September 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a Lapse of Funding Plan prior to the anticipated government shutdown, which occurred on October 1, 2025. According to the USDA ...

President-elect Joe Biden has promised to address racial inequality in agriculture. But some Black farmers aren't so sure he picked the right man for the job after settling on former Iowa Governor Tom ...

Yessenia Cendejas pulled up to a moving truck filled with donated food in northeastern Wisconsin, arriving at the mobile food bank straight from her job at a pizza-crust factory, to get sustenance for ...