Expanding broadband internet to rural America won’t be easy or cheap. But if Microsoft is right, the rural/urban broadband gap could be eliminated within five years. This week’s Open Mic guest ...

"This is an exciting opportunity for the Rural Utility Service to work collaboratively with our great partners, the Rural Electric cooperatives, in order to advance a clean energy future for rural ...

program will administer another $1 billion in largely forgivable loans through the Rural Utilities Service that applicants can use to purchase renewable energy systems like wind, solar ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a nearly $11 billion investment on Tuesday to help bring affordable clean energy to rural communities throughout the country. Rural electric ...

The screening is followed by a discussion with Rural Utilities Service Administrator Andrew Berke and Virginia’s broadband office director Tamarah Holmes. Connectivity remains a persistent ...

Berry also has reservations about a Congressional proposal to distribute an additional $600 million in broadband funding through the Rural Utilities Services, an arm of U.S. Department of ...

Isackson said the co-op has served the Brainerd lakes area for 75 years, first connecting rural folks with telephone service. Now the company will use the funding to install fiber optics. “It ...

There are things in place like FEMA reimbursement dollars and rural utility service dollars that help with costs that Kimbro hopes stay in place. “Set the rules, so we understand them and we can ...

who served as the administrator for the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service, overseeing rural electricity programs, from 2022 until January 2025. At the end of Biden’s term, the USDA announced ...

THE UTILITY COMPANY PURCHASES THE WATER IN BULK FROM THE CITY OF NEWTON AND THEN REDISTRIBUTES IT TO RURAL HOMES AND BUSINESSES IN ITS SERVICE AREA AT LAST MONDAY’S CITY COUNCIL MEETING ...

That will help determine how its service territory should be split ... Heithoff said the utilities "know how to run a rural system." "It really all goes back to the original building of the ...

“This is an exciting opportunity for the Rural Utility Service to work collaboratively with our great partners, the Rural Electric cooperatives, in order to advance a clean energy future for ...