Residents of Troy fiercely oppose a proposed 500-megawatt data center on farmland, fearing noise and flooding, despite ...

The concept of smart villages encapsulates a holistic approach to rural development by harnessing digitalisation, innovative technologies and community engagement to overcome longstanding challenges ...

USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

Michigan’s announcement of $173 million in federal funding to strengthen rural health care is more than a budget headline, ...

Down the two-lane roads where he built a home three decades ago, Jerry Gathof sees change coming to the quiet countryside. Developers keep asking the county for permission to build new subdivisions in ...

CHESAPEAKE — Concerned by the growth of subdivisions in rural parts of the city with limited infrastructure, Chesapeake leaders have taken a series of actions to close a “loophole” that for decades ...

The U.S. Department of Energy requires developers applying for all the agency’s grant and loan programs to craft a community benefits plan, with the goal of leveraging public investments into broadly ...

A broad coalition is suing the state over its interpretation of a decades-old law that housing developers have long relied on to supply water to low-density residential subdivisions outside public ...

HENRICO, Va. (WRIC) — Residents of Varina and a prominent Chesterfield-base developer are in conflict over a proposed 1,000-home suburban development on a pocket of farmland in the rapidly developing ...

GEORGETOWN — Georgetown County Council voted Dec. 9 to rezone a property on Highmarket Street, allowing plans for a high-density subdivision to move forward and prompting questions about future ...