Counties located far from large metros in the Midwest and South have seen home prices skyrocket since 2019 thanks to an influx of newcomers.

Arkansas already has one of the highest obesity rates in the nation, and now, results from the new Arkansas Health Survey, housed at the University of Arkansas, show that obesity across the state is ...

County leaders rejected a developer’s appeal to build thousands of new homes in East Manatee, well beyond the county’s development boundary line. The Future Area Development Boundary is intended to ...

Brooke Perry is an attendance officer and a homeless liaison in Champaign County, Ohio, which is about 45 minutes outside of Dayton. Every school day she is responsible for encouraging some of the ...

Arkansas has applied for federal funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program to improve healthcare access. Many rural hospitals in Arkansas are facing financial strain, with 66% considered at ...

Health care providers sent Arkansas officials more than 300 proposals for how to utilize federal funding the state expects to receive to bolster rural health care in the face of impending changes to ...

Health care providers sent Arkansas officials more than 300 proposals for how to utilize federal funding the state expects to receive to bolster rural health care in the face of impending changes to ...

Health systems in rural America are struggling. Many are losing money and over the past decade, more than 100 have closed. To address Medicaid shortfalls in the “One Big Beautiful” budget bill, ...

Three states have announced their submissions of their Rural Health Transformation (RHT) plans to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week. On Wednesday, the deadline for ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - On Friday, Oct. 31, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) submitted the state’s application for funding from the ...