Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump's budget plan would rapidly push more ...

This map of Iowa from 1855 shows 100 counties. Bancroft County was eliminated shortly after this map was published. The ...

“After 2016, there were real questions about whether rural Iowa had been lost to Democrats for good, and whether Iowa was going to be put into this category of safe Republican s ...

The enemy of rural Iowa is not urban Iowa. Cutting state economic development funding for Iowa’s four largest counties seems punitive, short-sighted and backwards. Yet, a bill in the Iowa ...

DES MOINES, Iowa ... to aid rural communities, but the measure would harm areas of the state that are often “drivers” in the state’s economy that will benefit surrounding counties.

DES MOINES — Iowa’s four most populous counties — Polk ... with a focus on both rural and urban areas. Some programs work with businesses directly, while others work with local governments ...

"Rural Iowa doesn’t always feel like our small towns and our rural counties get their fair share. … This bill was our initial exploration on that." Stephen Gruber-Miller covers the Iowa ...

more people have moved into rural communities than have moved out. The trend is not the same in Minnesota’s urban areas. Between 2020 and 2023, Hennepin and Ramsey counties experienced a net ...

When you envision the future of sustainable living, do you picture a dense city or the rural countryside? The hyper-urban and the hyper ... territory in Sonoma County, meaning the area doesn ...

Iowa’s most populous counties and those with a public ... “To me, it's not a political game at all. It is rural representation versus the urban. She and Sen. David Sires, R-Cedar Falls ...

As the United States continues to recover from the recession wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rural counties that EIG analyzed did better than urban counties. This finding is different from ...