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Anna Pope for KOSU
Black farmers face specific, outsized challenges in rural mental health crisis
Farming is a demanding job saddled with stressors like increasingly unpredictable weather, rising input costs and changing commodity prices. On top of those issues, producers of color deal with the impacts of racism, which is linked to mental health conditions like depression and PTSD.
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Hurricane Helene takes out power in much of Southwest Virginia; New River expected to crest higher than anytime since 1940
Southwest and Southside Virginia are a ring or two outside Helene’s inland bull’s-eye but have experienced significant and potentially damaging water and wind effects.
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Century of trauma fuels Lakota push to revoke Wounded Knee medals
At a recent hearing in South Dakota, speakers carried on a century-old pressure campaign to rescind the honors that stem from one of the worst massacres in the country’s Indian Wars.
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Searchers scour mountain, cellular data for missing Yellowstone hiker
The effort to find 22-year-old Austin King stretched into its seventh day. Nearly 100 people are now working to locate him.
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Angelica Edwards for Enlace Latino NC
Bridging Access
Rural communities of color may be facing barriers to health care, but they’re also laying the groundwork for a more equitable future. Whether it’s hospitals reopening, These stories led by Capital B and The Associated Press, offer a roadmap.
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Jerry L Mennenga for the Flatwater Free Press
Nebraska Evolving
The perception is that Nebraska’s smaller communities are dying. The reality is that many rural Nebraska counties are now growing for one reason. Immigration.
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Dave Pellar for Oviedo Community News
Preserve or Develop? The Race Against Time to Protect Florida’s Wildlife Corridor
Just off a trail in Central Florida lies evidence, piled in bear boneyards, of Florida’s battle between development and an imperiled corridor.
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Montana Preps for Potential Grizzly Bear Delisting
September 27, 2024
State Fish, Wildlife and Parks releases final EIS proposing statewide grizzly management plan.
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At the Last Bastion of Rent Control, Requests for Big Hikes
September 23, 2024
In Ludlow, Orange, and other small towns across Massachusetts, rent control boards are arbitrating bitter struggles between landowners seeking rent increases, and residents who say they fear being priced out and losing their homes.
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Missouri and Kansas keep losing pharmacies, and a key part of health care
September 23, 2024
The closings come at a time when, an Associated Press analysis found in June, people in majority Black or Latino neighborhoods and rural residents already have the fewest pharmacies per capita. Pharmacies also tend to represent a critical source of health care — sometimes the only one.
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Investigators debunk threats against Wausau, D.C. Everest schools
September 22, 2024
Part of a nationwide wave, threats are turning up on Snapchat and TikTok. Some include lists of schools while others warn students to hug their loved ones.
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Deportations, raids and visa access. How the presidential election could alter life for immigrant farm workers
September 21, 2024
Donald Trump says he’ll deport millions of undocumented workers, including many who work in the agriculture industry. Kamala Harris publicly supports a path to citizenship for farmworkers but espouses tough border policies.
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In Montana, 911 calls reveal impact of heat waves on rural seniors
September 21, 2024
Montana’s population is among the oldest in the country, and those over 65 are especially vulnerable to heat-related illness.
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Southern Wayne and northern Mingo have been hit hard by the decline of coal. For the people left, it’s a struggle to move forward.
September 20, 2024
While tourism is billed as one avenue for economic development, people in the northern Mingo and southern Wayne counties say they need jobs.
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Early voting opened Friday. Local registrars have been working for weeks to make sure that their voting machines are ready.
September 20, 2024
State law requires local officials to test all voting equipment ahead of each election. Ben Swenson.
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Videos show frantic minutes in Yellowstone shootout with gunman
September 19, 2024
Three rangers shot at Samson Fussner near an employee dining area in Canyon Village, killing him before he could get inside.