Following success halting multiple carbon dioxide pipeline projects, a local coalition in central Illinois wants to stop the use of eminent domain for these potentially dangerous pipelines. 

A high-voltage transmission line in Central Texas will leave residents with lots of risks and little benefit.

This week on Yonder Radio: rural conversations with national reach.

A curriculum to train future rural healthcare providers is just one of his many projects.

Kacey Musgraves' new album Middle of Nowhere and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide offer distinct but complementary perspectives on returning to your rural roots.

A $50 billion federal fund is supposed to modernize rural health with electronic health records, AI, telehealth, and more. But community clinics and rural health advocates fear that the contractors administering the money for states will bite off a big chunk before it reaches rural patients.

Exurban counties exemplify the shortcomings of defining rural at the county level.

Rye is having something of a renaissance in the San Luis Valley, thanks to its remarkable drought-tolerance, and two women behind the Rye Resurgence Project.

Celebrate the end of April with this week's #TheYonderReport with @dailyyonder.bsky.social: A record wildfire season predicted for the US; Researchers say Farm Bill is opportunity to address more than just agriculture; group turns surrendered guns into garden tools, artwork. #NewsFromRuralAmerica

@briannanofil.bsky.social, author of The Migrant’s Jail, spoke with Betsy Froiland about how immigrant detention infrastructure has impacted rural America for @dailyyonder.bsky.social:

Studies suggest rural residents are more amenable to solar when it incorporates farming. Is it enough to sway the anti-renewable energy efforts of the Trump administration?

Yonder Radio: Bluegrass on American Idol, News in the Ozarks, and Running for Office Tune into Yonder Radio this week for conversations about local news in the Ozarks, running for office, and rural education.

Salazar brings people and organizations together to make change across the San Luis Valley.

In rural Midcoast Maine, nearly a quarter of a million dollars in federal money earmarked for housing was rescinded from a small town after local officials sought to use the funds for a data center.

In creating a strong sense of place, no past is too distant to mine, and no one idea is permanent.

Creating a public image of a place is a long-term game.

According to the researchers, the reasons for the disparity are complicated, but overdose mortality remains one of the primary factors driving the difference.

While similar in its intent to cut deep across the federal government, touching energy, community development, and other areas,  it pulls back on some of the housing-related funding.

Residents and town leaders have been in the dark about who would build a $1B center or where it would go. They used zoning to block the plan.

Catterson’s interdisciplinary projects focus on conserving the land, water, and way of life of the San Luis Valley. 

Tune in for conversations about how rural libraries support telehealth in their communities, and how Kansas is often misrepresented in movies. Plus, Appalachian grave sweeping traditions, a new rural Colorado music venue, ancient astronomical observatories, and music from Brigid and Johnny Reedy.

Early signs of a massive federal broadband expansion effort are beginning to reach local communities.

A rural Nebraska dialysis unit that was hemorrhaging money closed, upending patients’ lives. That’s despite a federal rural health program that granted the state more than $200 million this year to improve health care in rural communities.

This thrilling series, set in the Southwest, centers Navajo stories with stirring action and well-developed narratives.

The tiny Missouri town was devastated by a tornado last year. What remains is a community fighting for survival.

A map of the areas where high need overlaps with low Medicaid spending shows where gaps in health insurance coverage may be concentrated.

The CEO of the Rural Community Assistance Partnership argues that federal agencies must step up to ensure clean drinking water for rural towns.

Janet Mills broke with fellow Democrats by vetoing a moratorium bill and clearing the way for a proposed data center in rural Franklin County, Maine.

Rural communities with high mortality rates won’t get their fair share of funding from Congress’ Rural Health Transformation Program, a new study shows.

Historian Brianna Nofil shares her research on how immigrant detention infrastructure has impacted small towns across America.

Tune in to Yonder Radio to hear about new poll results, forest farming, and the Rural Health Transformation Program. Plus, efforts to save a pristine watershed in the Florida Panhandle, an interview with the editor of a hard-hitting rural newspaper in Maine, and more.

There may be rough roads ahead for rural households already feeling economic impacts from war in the Persian Gulf.

An organizer, a minister, Allyn Maxfield-Steele explores “a rich layer of brilliant rural radicalism” found both in the past and today, across rural communities he works with.

Rural battleground voters list rising cost of living as a top concern this midterm cycle, but economic pessimism differs by gender, according to a Center for Rural Strategies poll.

A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.

State’s vision for robot-led ultrasounds doesn’t tackle the biggest issue facing its rural patients - access to obstetric facilities.

Shroyer’s new book investigates the planned destruction of his father’s childhood home in rural Somerset, Indiana.

Tune in for conversations about how virtual crisis care helps rural law enforcement, data centers in southern Virginia, a blacksmith program helping turn guns into garden tools, dam removal on the Klamath River, and music from Sparrow Smith.

Taking place in churches, bars, and concert halls all across Knoxville, Big Ears is a little U.S. city festival with fascinating connections to rural communities all over the world.

The legislation still requires the Governor’s signature to become the law, but it represents a growing bipartisan concern among voters over potential energy rate hikes and water usage.

The new editor of the Glasgow Courier in Glasgow, Montana, reflects on his step up to lead a newspaper serving the scientifically-determined “middle of nowhere.”

For years, the dominant headline has been that rural America is growing again. And that’s partly true. But zooming in reveals a more complex picture.

The initiative comes as federal proposals to require proof of citizenship raise concerns about voting access in rural areas.

Hospitals that manage to get dual-classified and be considered “administratively rural” can tap into funds dedicated for facilities that are geographically rural and underserved.

Maddie McGarvey spent a decade and a half photographing one family in rural southeast Ohio. The photographs tell a story of difficulty and hope.

Tune this week in for conversations about innovative childcare solutions, Appalachian weaving traditions, reminiscences of a post-war baseball league, and the network of southern schoolhouses that transformed the country’s educational landscape.

At some point, sticking to safe topics feels like sticking your head in the sand. But you don't want to argue. Maybe the answer is to just ask questions.

The new program rescinds a Biden-era policy that the Trump administration called “nebulous” and which prioritized projects less relevant to rural areas.

Mark R. Elliott investigates the mystery of his mother’s one-room school in Eastern Kentucky.

In Asheville, North Carolina, RAWtools South brings together blacksmiths, gun owners, and faith communities to transform surrendered guns into art.