Melissa Avelino is a data journalism student at Augustana University. In this five-part series, she looks at the changing ...

Rural Republican states like Idaho, Tennessee and Wyoming overcame GOP resistance to pass universal school choice legislation ...

Changes to Medicaid could leave thousands of South Dakotans uninsured and impair an already fragile rural health care system, ...

Students from Highmark Charter School in South Weber, Utah, release small trout that they worked to raise at Adams Reservoir ...

Eric Vetter is one such member. He grew up on his family’s farm in Cresbard, South Dakota, a town of about a hundred people located 45 miles southwest of Aberdeen. Vetter maintains the farm to this ...

PIERRE | The state's new school-funding system doesn’t provide enough money to small-enrollment schools that dot the rural South Dakota landscape, some legislators said on Monday.

MADISON, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University hasn’t experienced the student protests taking place at other U.S. colleges. Nestled in rural South Dakota, most of the nearly 4,000 students have… ...

More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients ...

Rural population trends are more of a cycle, according to his research as well as work done on a South Dakota newcomer survey by Kara Harders.