For the 2026 cycle, $2.75 million is available on a competitive grant basis for municipalities and their partners to put ...

Oklahoma will receive $223 million from a national initiative to improve health care access in rural areas, focusing on telehealth, hospital support and workforce needs.

A quick explainer of what National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) are, and how countries use them to meet ...

Kentucky’s Rural Health Transformation Plan (RHTP) was accepted in full by the Trump administration on Monday, securing ...

A year ago, no one knew for sure whether Project 2025 would prove to be influential or if it would fall by the wayside, like ...

County Commissioners voted unanimously during their Dec. 23 meeting to set the compensation rate for reserve deputies that Sheriff Jesse Slaughter is proposing to augment school safety. The 2025 ...

Medicare is launching a new pilot program that will require prior approval for 17 health services using artificial intelligence tools.

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In 2025 CenCal Health, the Medi-Cal managed care plan, distributed more than $16 million to 95 local primary care providers through its Quality Care ...

The removal of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife director and resignation of a commission member come amid a critical time in ...

Redding has an estimated 700 homeless individuals with substance use disorder. Here's how the Good News Rescue Mission plans to change that.