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This week the U.S. Agriculture secretary visited New Mexico to announce $40 million in grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand broadband in the state. A portion of that will help Native American communities, especially schools.

About a third of Americans living in rural areas say they probably or definitely would not get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a recent analysis from...

Democrats once again lost ground in much of the rural West. That includes Montana, where Republicans swept the election for the first time in at least...

Nate Hegyi, rural reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau , is embarking on a 900-mile cycling trip crisscrossing the continental divide in August...

COVID-19 infections are waning slightly in the rural U.S., but the number of deaths there is still climbing.

Many big cities are seeing the number of COVID-19 cases fall, but rural counties are seeing the opposite, according to a new analysis by the Daily...

As so many telecommuters, teachers, college students and children work and learn from home, there have been fears that the Internet wouldn't be up to...

This story was powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative. Shelby, Mont. is home to a lot of wheat and barley fields, a decent high school...

An overdose-reversing medication has become an important tool in preventing opioid deaths. But it’s not as available in Albuquerque as it is in other…

Federal money to treat and prevent opioid addiction in rural counties would have targeted predominantly white areas around the country—skipping New…