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For more than a decade, the Kuspuk School District asked Alaska’s education department for the money to fix a rotting elementary school. The school, in the…

A small circus coming to rural England turns out to open up new opportunities and perspectives for a young woman in Calif Chong’s feature film High…

At this point, the event was briefly disrupted by a small protest outside by two local activists who highlighted the fact that Attwood had been advocating…

Manhunt under way for man accused of shooting dead two officers and wounding another in southeastern state of Victoria.Police in Australia are searching for a gunman…

As I drive north through Angus, birch and rowan begin to replace ash and oak, and by the time I reach the foot of the glen,…

In rural parts of the U.S., 36 percent of jobs that pay enough for an individual to be self-sufficient require at least a bachelor’s degree, yet only…

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The road to four struggling rural hospitals now hosts a political message: “If this hospital closes, blame Trump.”In a series of black-and-yellow billboards erected near the…

For decades, thousands of residents in California’s agricultural heartland couldn’t use their wells because the water was too contaminated with pesticides. In December, the Biden administration…

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