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Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight LocalFor the last century, the money has gone to counties with large amounts of federal land that can鈥檛 be taxed. Congress failed to include it in the upcoming budget. -
Juliet Grable/JPR NewsIn his drive to slash government spending, President Donald Trump has frozen or terminated millions of dollars in federal agriculture grant contracts. This is leaving farmers, ranchers, and landowners in Southern Oregon confused and worried.
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California鈥檚 northernmost seven counties have made a concerted effort to combat poverty and outmigration in their communities. -
Historic funding to the Rural Energy for America program has helped fund more than three dozen rural solar projects in Oregon this year. -
Two of the three troubled California hospitals are especially vital to their communities because they鈥檙e the only emergency providers in their rural counties. Health care chains could keep them afloat. -
High costs and lack of options felt deeply in Eastern Oregon -
Outside of Oregon's urban areas, a mental health crisis can mean a long drive or an ambulance ride over the mountains to get the right level of care. -
A Baker City man is planning a series of events in the region while a professor is collecting data from Pendleton. -
After decades of traditional economic development efforts, authorities are now trying some unusual experiments to spur activity in rural Oregon. -
When the 20th century began, 60 percent of the American population lived in rural areas. Today? Roughly 20 percent. That makes rural areas lacking in鈥� -
The economic cycles of rural areas have a way of acting like roller coasters: way up and way down. A project called Beyond Boom and Bust examines the鈥� -
How slow is the mobile broadband in rural areas? Well, people who live there (or are just visiting) can now test for themselves. The Rural Community鈥� -
Moving from town to the country does not automatically confer knowledge of how to take care of the land. And a few longtime city- or suburb-dwellers may鈥� -
Ten million people live in Los Angeles County, the biggest in California. Humboldt County has somewhat fewer, at a bit more than 134,000. So Humboldt and鈥�
