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Chloe Trofatter for Bridge Michigan
Up North Michigan, schools struggle between pull of home and promise of college
Mobility rates — doing better than your parents — is as low in some rural areas as urban ones.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Federal rural health funding could trigger service cuts
As Montana rolls out new federal funding, rural hospitals fear “right-sizing” could mean losing care.
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Washington County’s Tristan Singh to represent Maine at the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Singh won the Maine State Spelling Bee at Bowdoin College last weekend, one of 14 young spellers competing in the annual event.
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Gas prices on the rise as the snow melts and birds return
Gary Lee shares how rising gas prices impact the North Country as snow melts and the Adirondacks gets into spring.
RNN Highlights
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Gordon Hodges for Door County Knock
Locked Out: Door County’s affordable housing shortage
An in-depth series on Door County’s affordable housing shortage, examining its causes, shrinking availability and the roadblocks to building more.
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Courtesy of U.S. Senate.
Caridnal News 250: Virginia’s stories. A nation’s birth.
The project spotlights Virginia’s overlooked contributions to America’s march to independence ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary, or semiquincentennial.
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Justin Hardiman for Capital B
Sowing Resilience
Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity. Nine stories reveal how communities are navigating — and reimagining — the systems that have left them hungry.
MORE NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Opioid settlement funds designated to build 60-bed youth behavioral health facility in Anderson
March 26, 2026
Local nonprofit Family Dynamics Resource Center asked the county board for a community match in order to receive $25 million dollars in funding from the state.
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Is it legal to lower the minimum wage in Oklahoma?
March 26, 2026
Amid a looming $15 wage vote, the question underscores deeper legal and economic tensions shaping how states define—and potentially redefine—worker protections.
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Patagonia Mayor Wood to run unopposed for third term
March 26, 2026
With no challenger stepping forward, the race highlights how continuity—and limited competition—shape decision-making in rural communities.
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Minutes matter in stroke cases. In rural Oklahoma, a telemedicine program is saving critical time
March 26, 2026
Nearly 2,000 Oklahomans die from stroke-related complications annually. That burden is felt more in rural communities, where access to specialized care is limited.
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Hawaiʻi Is On Track To Obtain And Fix Dam That Almost Failed
March 26, 2026
Taxpayers will pay more than $20 million for repairs. Partial owner Dole might still get the water.
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What Rural America Can Learn from Haitian Immigrants
March 26, 2026
Immigrant communities have developed sophisticated survival strategies. Those lessons can serve rural people facing their own crisis of abandonment.
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One year later, Ketchikan remembers rockslide that bisected island’s main road
March 25, 2026
State DOT said it’s monitoring the site via drone to ensure future rockslides or falls won’t happen there.
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Iowa’s High Cancer Rate Linked to Nitrate, Pesticides, PFAS and Radon, New Report Finds
March 25, 2026
The new analysis combines science on environmental risk factors with the lived experiences of Iowans battling cancer.
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Appellate court grants preliminary injunction preventing new docks on Lower Saranac Lake
March 25, 2026
The project involves the installation of new docks and dock covers in and over regulated freshwater wetlands.