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The story of health care in Alaska told through the tales of 5 residents

Jun 7, 2024

Despite all the challenges inherent to living in Alaska, particularly those related to health care, the positives make it overwhelmingly worth it for most residents.

Challenges of caring for Alaskans: Fewer people, across more miles, often in cold, dark

Jun 3, 2024

While health care in rural America is a challenge everywhere, many of the challenges are more extreme in Alaska.

Health care, housing still a challenge after flooding devastated eastern Kentucky community

May 31, 2024

The mountainous and largely rural areas of eastern Kentucky remain on the road to recovery after historic and deadly flooding in 2022.

State and local efforts aim to ease access to heart care in rural Kentucky

May 29, 2024

In a state where mountains and winding roads can make getting emergency services and health care hard, Kentuckians turn to technology and new training for help.

They're not doctors. But they're on the front lines against West Virginia's health struggles.

May 23, 2024

West Virginia has some of the highest rates of chronic illness in the nation, with doctors and hospitals few and far between. Community health workers fill that gap.

To save their soil, Kansas tribe shifts to regenerative agriculture – and transforms their farms

May 16, 2024

As the Ioway move away from conventional monocropping, their Kansas reservation has become an example of farming without herbicides and pesticides.

Through tradition and trade, tribe in rural Kansas works to reclaim its food sovereignty

May 13, 2024

The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska aims to improve healthy food access, reopen trade routes, care for the environment – and change the way farming works.

Time, distance and staffing pose challenges to health care in rural North Dakota

May 9, 2024

North Dakota turns to telemedicine and community education to cope with heart and health care challenges in rural areas.