The Yonder Report

Residents in Colorado's rural communities face challenges to recycling, climate change and Oregon's megadrought are worrying firefighters and a farm advocacy group says corporate greed is behind high food prices in Montana.

The CDC has a new plan to improve the health of rural Americans, updated data could better prepare folks for flash floods like those that devastated Appalachia and Native American tribes could play a key role in the nation's energy future.

An urban vote slump, not the rural electorate, tipped the presidential election, Minnesota voters approved more lottery money to support conservation and clean water and a survey shows strong broadband causes rural businesses to boom.

Abortion care can be five minutes away in California or 11 hours for women in Texas, rural living proves a mixed blessing for veterans, an ancient technique could curtail climate-change wildfires and escape divisive politics on World Kindness Day.

A Montana court will decide the fate of a climate lawsuit brought by youth, housing for working families could boost jobs in the Northeast and a Cambodian poultry farmer who lost his livelihood could be a hero for others.

Political strategists in Missouri work to ensure down-ballot races aren't overlooked, a small Minnesota town is helping high school students prepare to work in the medical field and Oklahoma tribes' meat processing plants are reversing historic ag consolidation.

Rural towns in Wyoming and Kansas are building, not closing hospitals, an activist formerly incarcerated at San Quentin is launching media projects at other California prisons and a Rocky Mountain church reshapes a community's art scene.

Hurricane Helene has some rural North Carolina towns worried larger communities might get more attention, there's mixed feelings about ranked choice voting on the Oregon ballot next month and New York farmers earn money feeding school kids.

Cheap milk comes at a cost for residents of Washington's Lower Yakima Valley, Indigenous language learning is promoted in Wisconsin as experts warn half the world's languages face extinction and Montana's public lands are going to the dogs!

The presidential election is imminent and young rural voters say they still feel ignored, it's leaf peeping season in New England but some fear climate change could mute fall colors and Minnesota's mental health advocates want more options for troubled youth.