According to a plan released last week by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, in its first reorganization in over two decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stands to lose one of its core ...

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, his sights set on next winter's Iowa caucuses, on Wednesday offered a $1 billion plan to establish special rural development zones and boost high-speed ...

Lawrence and Douglas County commissioners Thursday got their first look at a proposed set of guidelines to eliminate the five-acre exemption and push rural development closer to the city limits.

The Indian Space Research Organisation has completed high-resolution land use and land cover mapping for the entire country ...

Indiana communities seek to position themselves to achieve long-term community vitality. One of the issues that emerges as a major barrier is the limited availability of a diverse stock of quality ...

Some of the issues have been discussed for almost 30 years, but Douglas County leaders said they think they are closer now than ever to improving the way rural development is planned. County ...

The Braun administration has published a rural economic development plan for Indiana. It looks a lot like plans offered by GOP and Democratic governors over the past 75 years. Indeed, the only element ...