In the heart of Arkansas, rural high school students are finding new pathways to success thanks to rootEd Arkansas, a ...

When students in rural Trinity County, California, gaze out their classroom windows, they see the tree-filled landscape of Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which spans more than 2 million acres in the ...

The expansive forest might inspire dreams of outdoor adventure for locals, but for Trinity County and other rural forest communities across the U.S., it also represents a fraught cycle of ...

according to Forest Service data. The agency pays counties through a law called the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, first enacted in 2000. If the law expires ...

A wildfire that ravaged about 100 acres of forest in rural Warren County was completely contained as of Saturday morning. The ...