One of the most common industries in rural areas nationally as well as globally is the extraction industry. The extraction industry includes...

In the summer of 1965, the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club decided to spend their Fourth of July Weekend at Bass Lake , a small resort area l...

The New York Times reports today in a front page story that many pharmacies--especially in rural areas, it seems--have stopped selling Oxy...

Photographs are literally a click away. Pressing one’s fingers down on a camera preserves an image, a memory, and potentially history. Ph...

Although t he traditional breakdown of social classes into upper, middle, and lower may not be nuanced enough to capture all the subtle diff...

This week marked California's first Annual Fred Korematsu Day , honoring a Japanese American who, with the help of civil rights attorney...

This weekend, the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution and the anti-government protests in Egypt seemed to hit a fever pitch. What had largely bee...

After living in a rural village in Malaysia for 7 months, one thing was clear: I knew more about my small, adopted town, Matang, than most M...

NPR's Eric Westervelt filed this report about the Tunisian "Jasmine Revolution" yesterday under the headline, "Rural Tun...

Read Kirk Johnson's story in the New York Times here , under the headline "Plains Giants Have Foothold on Tables." Johnson...

The city council of tiny Marshall, Arkansas , population 1535 , voted this week to impose a fine of $1,000 on anyone flying any flag other t...