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The House Committee for Agriculture held a hearing on Wednesday regarding electric vehicle investments in rural parts of the United States.

On a bamboo-covered mountaintop the mud-walled houses of Diaotan village are just barely visible through the thick fog that often shrouds this remote hamlet in China’s Zhejiang province. Worn but sturdy earthen walls still enclose the largest structure of Diaotan, the ancestral hall, or citang. Inside, a few lanterns and red couplets hang above a stone courtyard covered with

In our short film “Down to the Countryside,” Sun Yunfan and I follow Ou Ning, an artist and curator who moved from Beijing to the village of Bishan in rural Anhui province in 2013, where he experiments with preserving and revitalizing local heritage, developing the rural economy, and bringing art and culture to the countryside. His journey stems from his rejection of China’s

After decimating the state’s wolves, conservatives are targeting the iconic birds

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The Indiana Farm Bureau is urging the 2022 General Assembly to enact policies maintaining the viability of rural communities amid an exodus of residents and businesses to suburban and urban

Victoria specialists guide rural doctors through life-saving procedures from afar.

Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. is going young as he begins staffing up his 2022 campaign for Indianas Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.

In winter the land is frozen and still. A cloudless sky shines off snow-covered rice paddies, reflecting light so bright, you have to shield your eyes. I lean into a stinging wind and trudge north up Red Flag Road, to a village named Wasteland.The view is flat, lifeless, and silver fresh. The two-lane cement road slices through the paddies like the courses plowed across frozen