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President Obama will join medical professions and law enforcement officers at the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta today to announce a series of actions addressing the opioid abuse epidemic in America.

President Barack Obama has asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to lead a coordinated, interagency effort to curb heroin and opioid abuse in rural America.

Separate congressional panels last week took a hard look at outstanding budget problems in rental assistance and water infrastructure programs that have kept federal dollars from reaching rural America.

The Obama administration has chosen 10 rural communities for a demonstration project where a handful of federal agencies, including USDA, will team up and try out new strategies for bringing families out of poverty.

A House Ways and Means subcommittee met Tuesday to discuss two Medicare payment requirements that the panelàs Republicans called àbureaucratic red tapeà for rural hospitals.

USDA released a new Regional Development Priority (RDP) policy Wednesday that details how the agency will support rural economic development by providing loans to small businesses and grants for community infrastructure improvements.

Will rural areas eventually receive the same type of high-speed Internet access that many of their urban cousins enjoy? The answer to the question is still in dispute as service providers and their federal regulators duke it out in the courts over controversial new rules.

USDA announced that it will bring $35 million to the table as it teams up with the White House to increase high speed and wired broadband access in under-served and rural areas.

USDA has selected 85 utilities and cooperatives for grants totaling more than $59 million to encourage economic growth in rural communities.