Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

The days of small towns landing a big company are in the past. Amazon didn’t look at Yuba, Wisconsin, or Baxley, Georgia, for its newest headquarters. So how does a rural community create new ...

Counties with outdoor recreation economies are more likely to attract new residents with greater wealth and have faster-growing wages than their non-recreation counterparts. These trends are ...

Sen. Corey Simon and the Florida Rural Economic Development Association hosted Rural Counties Day at the Capitol on Thursday, celebrating what organizers described as Florida’s “rural renaissance” and ...

My first academic job was as an extension rural development economist in my home state. At the time there were strong connections between Cooperative Extension in each of the states and an Extension ...

DENVER — The Business Funding and Incentives Division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade (OEDIT) announced on Feb. 16 that Morgan County has been designated as a ...

The South Carolina Department of Commerce released its 2025 industry recruitment results Wednesday noting the highest ...

In the village of Kyzart in Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan, little was known about the transformative power of vegetable farming. A simple change to the diets of rural households—a smidge of horticulture ...

The Rural Renaissance plan creates opportunities to expand education, increase health care services and modernize commerce.

South Carolina announced $9.12 billion in capital investment and more than 8,100 new jobs in 2025.

ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp and Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson announced Wednesday that Tift County’s Brian Marlowe will be the new deputy commissioner for rural Georgia. Marlowe has been ...

Alabama is focusing attention on its rural areas in a bid to spur economic development. The state’s Department of Commerce today unveiled the “RurAL” website along with a marketing campaign trumpeting ...