The Trump Administration plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 2001 rule that protects public land from development. Many rural communities are worried that the rescinding could hurt their economies.

This article was copublished with Canary Media, a newsroom covering clean energy. Jeff Hough did not pull any punches. What his fellow Republican county ...

Rural voters turned out in force across the 2026 primaries, shaping key races, and emerging as an electorate candidates cannot afford to overlook. In ...

Plus, AI misinformation, rural-focused philanthropy, and "living room folk" music from Redd and the Paper Flowers.

Studies show our hormones remain with the sun even when we switch the clocks in March, meaning “we end up living our social life by a clock time, when we go to work and school, but our body’s clock is ...

When Leeshia Lee got the idea to challenge artists to write a lyrical love letter to West Virginia, she had no idea it would create so much buzz. This spring and summer, the Dear ...

Building data centers is broadly unpopular across the political spectrum, but so far, banning new development is a mostly metropolitan area phenomenon.

Let’s go to La Junta, Colorado, for their Tarantula Fest!” is what no sane person should exclaim. But I did because I’m terrified of spiders. I don’t ...

On August 25, the Trump administration Commerce Department finally approved Illinois's spending plan under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment ...

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. In this ...

Researchers with Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), affiliated with Parkland Health, looked at areas in Texas with higher vulnerabilities for ...

Across the country, local governments are facing budget season with an impossible math problem. As federal funding shrinks and safety-net programs face ...