Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman who gave up her stock-market job to open a rural CrossFit says the idea of a slow-paced life in the countryside is a myth ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

A widely ridiculed Japanese government idea to lure Tokyo women into marrying men in rural areas by offering cash payouts and train tickets to matchmaking events has been scrapped, officials said ...