The Yonder Report

Rural America’s jobs numbers are rebounding, but still below pre-pandemic days; a rural Oregon community has a new approach to affordable housing; the smallest communities benefit from the world’s largest museum; and the dark nights give way to light.

Texas welcomes more visitors near Big Bend, but locals worry the water won’t last; those dependent on Colorado’s Dolores River fear the same, but have found common ground solutions; and a new film highlights historical healthcare challenges in rural Appalachia.

Rural low income youth, especially boys, experience greater economic mobility than those in cities; a new government rule should help level the playing field for small poultry growers; and the Kansas Governor wants her state to expand Medicaid.

A post-COVID benefit reduction may have left more Americans hungry, a Pennsylvania panel says immigrants could boost workforce participation, struggling rural hospitals await help from Congress, and Americans traveling over Thanksgiving get gas price relief.

Rural versus urban stereotypes about religion don’t wash, according to a new study, President Biden barnstorms across rural America and Vermont takes a novel approach to dispense opioid overdose medicine through vending machines.

Rural Americans in battleground states stress kitchen table concerns in new polling, a social media drive is raising money to keep a Pennsylvania hospital afloat, and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and the Lakota Music Project bridge a cultural divide.

Rural communities are disadvantaged in race for federal climate-change funding, Colorado artists “feel the love” from rural creative districts, and beekeeping finds friends in West Virginia’s coal country.

Critics say the crypto mine promise of rural prosperity is more hype than help, data show Black southerners in rural counties are less segregated than their urban counterparts and efforts begin to rid the Great Plains of invasive species.

Vulnerable rural Americans need an electrical grid upgrade to cope with climate change, West Virginians worry Mountain Valley Pipeline construction is damaging their landscape and 75 years after “Roswell,” New Mexico is still a destination for space geeks. Our country’s electrical grid needs an upgrade to cope with climate change, especially in underserved rural communities. […]

A small fire department in rural Indiana is determined not to fail new moms and babies, the growing election denial movement has caused voting districts to change procedures and autumn promises spectacular scenery along America’s rural byways.