Lawmakers say they are seeking to improve infrastructure and access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced new presidential appointments for key positions at the U.S. Department ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The rural healthcare crisis in Alabama isn’t going away. Locally, it became evident a little more than a year ago when Monroe County Hospital ended labor and delivery.

He had one who tried to pay his bill with pine straw, offering to landscape the flower beds ... an obscure federal grant was creating in rural Alabama. Patients were getting used to the idea ...

(Timothy Hursley) Four hundred people descended on tiny Newbern, Alabama, in late April ... This is what the social landscape looked like when Rural Studio began. Starting with the Bryant Haybale ...

That’s where we see the greatest long-term success.” Both Mississippi and Alabama, like many rural areas across the U.S., suffer from a shortage of health care providers. To address this ...

Alabama currently has 52 rural hospitals. Thirty of them are at risk for closing, and 23 of those 30 are at immediate risk. However, these hospitals not only provide healthcare, but they also ...

The Alabama Department of Public Health voted to solicit public comment on a set of rules that would give rural hospitals some financial relief, but only if they close inpatient facilities.

The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences’ Rural Health Leaders Pipeline has recently welcomed 18 students from rural Alabama aspiring to become primary care physicians and ...