With many schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, students are getting more learning via the internet. But not everyone has equal internet access.

Is rural America more or less safe from the coronavirus pandemic? Two public health experts identify some advantages and disadvantages.

Urban expansion and falling population density in cities worldwide over the last 40 years are leading to problems with efficient use of land.

Rural kids with lack of internet access or slow connections have lower grades than kids with better access. The gap lasts, too.

The urban-rural poltiical divide in the United States may go back to where we live, and how many other people we live near, new research shows.

Roughly one-third of boys and 1 in 10 of girls in rural communities have carried a handgun and many started as early as the sixth grade, researchers say.

When different kinds of land-use mix—including grassland, forest, urban areas, and bodies of water—the landscape is more productive and stable.

A new way to measure innovation finds lots of it in rural areas of the United States.

Why do rural patients pay higher health care premiums? New research finds it's not primarily an issue of having too few doctors.