Life in rural America comes with its challenges, and those challenges are highlighted during election season. Sam Van Wetter, a resident of the small town of Boulder, Utah, knows it. So, he works to ...

Rural communities deserve to be part of the AI revolution in a meaningful way, not just as repositories for data centers.

For generations, rural America promised cheaper homes and a lower cost of living than the nearest big city. That bargain is ...

Megan Langley, right, executive director of StrengthenND, speaks Oct. 22, 2025, at Grand Farm near Casselton, North Dakota, as part of a panel examining rural policy. Former U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, ...

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dusk in downtown Lumberton, county seat in Robeson County, N.C., the most diverse rural county in America. AP Photo/David Goldman ...

Pictured is Jeff Winton, founder and chairman of Rural Minds, during the filming of the Roadtrip Nation program. Submitted photo MAYVILLE — Rural Minds, a local nonprofit focused on mental health in ...

There’s just something about living in the country or a rural town in America. Maybe you have to grow up there to understand and appreciate it fully, but it is truly a wonderful place for families to ...

Imagine Entertainment has teamed with dairy and food giant Land O’Lakes in an effort to modernize the portrayals of rural ...

Roughly one in five Americans live in rural areas — places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through ...

Flags line a street in Troy, Ohio. Families in small towns and rural areas are particularly reliant on Head Start, the free federal child care program, but recent turmoil in the program has them ...

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. We will be taking the next edition off as we head into Christmas.