We're not done with 2025 quite yet! Here are some of our favorite rural movies, TV shows, and more from the past year.

At 17 I was the Santa Claus for the Walkertown section of Hazard. Rick Rosanova, the news guy at Channel 4, was Santa at the ...

Each year, an estimated 80 million U.S. utility customers have trouble affording their monthly heat and electricity bills. Now, as the cost of energy climbs, experts say more people are at risk of ...

A bill filed late last month would claw back $21 billion allocated to state governments to address the digital divide, marking another moment in the ...

It's true in both literal and figurative ways. The metal, hand-operated relic divides a state highway near the feed store and post office, two of few ...

Dave Nuss’s pickup rumbled down the dirt road, dark, rich soil turned up in fields on either side. The 69-year-old farmer gestured to one field then ...

This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a ...

As counties across Wisconsin sell off publicly-owned nursing homes to private companies, communities worry that privatization will bring understaffing, declining quality of care, and more regulatory ...

Today is your final chance to give to our annual donor campaign. If you’ve been waiting to donate, now is the time. When the clock strikes midnight, our matching challenges — which multiply every ...

Author Ken Jaworowski had more small-town stories to tell in the fictional Rust Belt town of Locksburg, Pennsylvania.

The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy is a twice-monthly newsletter showcasing the best – and the worst – in rural media and entertainment. Rural Remix is a podcast feed that cuts through rural stereotypes ...