Rural

Rural schools struggle as timber payments end

10 Feb 2012

It’s been more than 30 years since Kermith Walters hauled logs of pine and fir through the mountains of Siskiyou County. He says he left it behind when the habitat of a dark brown, white-speckled bird became a matter of federal law. Since 1990, when the northern spotted owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, millions of acres of old-growth forest have been closed to ...

Rural diversion meetings set

10 Feb 2012

First meetings begin this month and run through early April FARGO - Residents affected by the Red River diversion project will have several chances this spring to meet personally with Diversion Authority officials and discuss how the project will impact them.

India’s rural crush

9 Feb 2012

STARVATION and suicide plagues India’s farmers and rural poor more severely today than it did prior to the country’s green revolution.