When Jenny Roy moved from Canada to the small town of Narrabri in central New South Wales, she was following love.

OSKALOOSA — Rural regions like the one surrounding this southern Iowa town used to have a lot more babies, and many more places to give birth to them. At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered ...

One rural birthing unit "teeters on the brink" and goes from "one disaster to the next" due to severe staff shortages.

Almost half of all Texas counties do not have a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care. It can be a challenge to ...

One rural birthing unit "teeters on the brink" and goes from "one disaster to the next" due to severe staff shortages. Another maternity service in a farming town of 15,000 closed four years after ...