Sponsored by Ascendium Education Group, the FORWARD curriculum is designed to support Cooperative Extension Professionals (CEPs) working to address workforce development issues in rural communities.

As health-care workforce shortages deepen nationwide, many of the most practical, scalable solutions are emerging not from large urban systems, but from rural communities willing to rethink how talent ...

USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

Down the two-lane roads where he built a home three decades ago, Jerry Gathof sees change coming to the quiet countryside. Developers keep asking the county for permission to build new subdivisions in ...

Trumark Homes has broken ground on Ocean Breeze Ranch, a massive undertaking that will bring 381 single-family residences to rural Bonsall.

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy requires developers applying for all the agency’s grant and loan programs to craft a community benefits plan, with the goal of leveraging public investments into broadly ...

Michigan’s announcement of $173 million in federal funding to strengthen rural health care is more than a budget headline, ...

HENRICO, Va. (WRIC) — Residents of Varina and a prominent Chesterfield-base developer are in conflict over a proposed 1,000-home suburban development on a pocket of farmland in the rapidly developing ...

BARTOW — On a 4-1 vote, county commissioners sided with residents and denied a 242-unit subdivision proposed for rural Kathleen. Commissioners cited issues with compatibility between the proposed ...

Two Top End towns are in line for new subdivisions - one commercial, the other residential - if applications lodged with ...