Balance and fall prevention programs make sense for rural elders. Because you never know when you might need to stand in a canoe to rescue an owl tangled in fishing line.

Free virtual gathering includes conversations with leading rural voices on philanthropy, mutual aid, and native affairs, plus music, art, and civic connections.

Apple TV’s new horror comedy series, “Widow’s Bay,” shows that screams and snickers are always in season.

A program in rural eastern Kentucky is receiving opioid settlement funding to address substance use disorders, housing, hunger, and other challenges.

When the GOP slashed funding for federal health insurance assistance, rural residents were disproportionately hit.

Research proves hyper-localized data can help understand unique challenges and design tailor-made solutions for healthcare needs of a community.

It is far easier and cheaper to keep someone housed in a mobile home park than to build a new subsidized unit for them.

These small towns hold great significance in the 250 years of American history.

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In her new book, Margiana Petersen-Rockney explores how farmers are adapting to the social and physical risks of climate change.

As the country prepares to celebrate its birthday, we should recognize that rural America formed the core of what it means to be an American today.

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Texas and Louisiana were among the few states to post Affordable Care Act enrollment gains, but many rural communities still lost coverage.

Fifty years ago, graduating in the Bicentennial year felt special. Why does the Semiquincentennial feel so weird?

In Bastrop County, Texas, the public health department is implementing a new digital platform to deliver mental health support to rural residents.

At seven, Madeline Matson loved being the youngest rug hooker among the self-proclaimed “Happy Hookers.” Decades later, a gathering of women in craft brought back familiar fun, warmth, and connection.

The CEO of Advocates for Community Health discusses the rural healthcare workforce shortage, and opportunities for innovation.

An Interior Department proposal would cancel BLM grazing leases for American Prairie’s buffalo in Montana, but it could affect tribal and private herds across the West.

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Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape.

One program in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri is hoping to bring more doctors and dentists to rural communities.

Tune in for conversations about data center regulation and plans to build the border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas. Plus, an introduction to Rural Assembly Everywhere, efforts to fight coastal erosion in Washington's cranberry country, and music from heavy metal guitarist Gabe…

In Weiser, Idaho, free community wheelchair ramps help residents who need mobility devices access the world.

The band talks the rural roots of their music, and its role in resisting a war that has decimated rural life in their country.

A promise of jobs and economic development is not enough to convince people of rural Jonesborough, Tennessee, that a depleted uranium facility is worth the potential risks. They want more safety checks.

Q&A: Rolf Potts on Why “Kansas Never Plays Itself” Travel writer Rolf Potts discuses his recent video essay about how Kansas has been misrepresented on the silver screen....

And the small band of researchers on a mission to find out why.

So what if some of our congressional districts look like salamanders? Is that always a bad thing?

On the edges of a booming metro area, the Martindale Community Library brings mobile hotspots, new technology, and digital skills to an older community.

Recent Supreme Court decisions dismantling the Voting Rights Act will disproportionately harm minority voters in the rural South.

The rural higher education newsletter from Open Campus is back.

For this five-piece family band, playing – and teaching – old-time Appalachian tunes builds community.

Naomi Miguel, a seasoned Washington political operative and a Democratic primary candidate for Arizona’s 23rd Congressional District, believes that “It shouldn’t be this hard to live in rural America.”

Tune in for conversations about rural dialysis care, the tradition of Appalachian ballad swapping, and restoring the Black Footed Ferret. Plus, we celebrate the migration of Sandhill cranes in Colorado's San Luis Valley, and hear music from producer and musician Bill Palmer.

Jodi Jahrling, founder of an art gallery, wine bar, and music venue, writes about her newest venture - a poetry subscription service out of a small town in Colorado.

A trap-neuter-release program in Weiser, Idaho, addresses a rapidly increasing cat colony.

A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.

Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, framed the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as “bold, creative plans” led by states. But as states have started to roll out their plans, federal officials control where and how the money is spent.

Condensed timelines heighten communication, staffing, and resource issues for rural counties.

Microproducers, regenerative farming education, a community co-op, and a teeming farmers market grow in Lander — once home to the state’s most bountiful apple orchards.

A $4.6 million investment supports community-based programs working to address disparities in maternal health care for marginalized groups in Texas.

Republicans promise that $50 billion in new health funding will help rural America. But it’s not expected to aid the years-long effort in North Carolina’s Martin County to reopen its only hospital.

A professor of theology discusses his new book, 'Each in Their Own Language: Symbolization and Social Ethics in Rural America.'

Yonder Radio. Rural conversations with national reach.

One newspaperman in a remote part of Montana tells a ghost story about the rural housing crisis.

From June 12-14th, Metropolis, IL will hold its annual Superman Celebration, featuring franchise actors, vendors, a carnival, and fans from across the world.

Work requirements will encourage people who are able to work to seek and maintain jobs, proponents say. But researchers haven’t found that they lower the unemployment rate.

Seven out of 10 Illinois residents supported the POWER Act, but it didn’t pass in the Illinois Legislature this session. Supporters are pretty confident the bill will be brought back up later this year.

Changing traditions and population trends reveal the challenges associated with rural cemetery caretaking.

My disappointing search for data on rural LGBTQIA+ people highlights the importance of representation in data.