On September 2, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a press release announcing a change that has the potential to transform law ...

All across Appalachia, communities have historically leaned on music to help get work done. Whether tending the garden or marching along the picket line, music has been a way to k ...

Beckie Irvin crested the rocky hilltop in her truck. She threw it in park and joined Cobra Thomas and Beverly Garland, the ...

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As counties across Wisconsin sell off publicly-owned nursing homes to private companies, communities worry that privatization will bring understaffing, ...

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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 ...

While rural residents are facing a growing mental health crisis, an initiative to direct them to the help they need is seeing success across the country.

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When Carol Kolseth got her biopsy results back after a routine mammogram in October of 2024, she knew treatments for the cancerous lump in her breast ...

Starr Lodge Four of us sleep in borrowed beds at Starr Lodge; the fifth, our host — the one who left our Pennsylvania town decades ago for northern ...

What do queer Appalachians and a serpent-handling preacher have in common? More than you might think. “American culture ...