This June, a storefront opened along a main drag of downtown Santa Rosa, California, with a unique goal: to educate local residents about the tools that contribute to a more energy-efficient life and offer support to buy and use them. Read Article

Abigail Borrego has experienced all the hustle and bustle of big city life. But when it came time to raise a family, she wanted to return to a smaller area in Utah—one without traffic, pollution and smaller class sizes for her children.  Read Article

A Virginia county on Sept. 1 began distributing fentanyl test strips to people leaving jail. The preventive effort to help people detect the powerful opioid, which is often mixed with other drugs, was launched in the wake of rising overdose numbers. Read Article

On a warm July morning, roughly two dozen volunteers gathered at a ranch outside Cody, Wyoming, carrying wire cutters, gloves, buckets, and bottles of water. The goal was to take down several miles of barbed wire that had not been used to fence livestock for many years—and were now a useless… Read Article

Over the past year, rising eighth grader Lindsey Shanley had opportunities that many students in small rural towns aren’t often afforded. Read Article

Tonja Jimenez is far from the only person driving an RV down Colorado’s rural highways. But unlike the other rigs, her 34-foot-long motor home is equipped as an addiction treatment clinic on wheels, bringing lifesaving treatment to the northeastern corner of the state, where patients with su… Read Article