The Yonder Report

Residents in Southwest Colorado communities are pushing back against ICE arrests, rural towns hit by catastrophic weather events are sharing recovery advice and maternity care is getting harder to find in rural America.

Tribally-run programs in states like South Dakota have improved Native American healthcare on reservations, rural Texas communities could lose revenue from abandoned wind and solar projects and shale drilling in Ohio has not produced promised results.

A double whammy could be coming for SNAP recipients in states like Texas, construction of AI data centers is plowing ahead in Indiana and descendants of a historic Jewish farming settlement in New Jersey safeguard its legacy.

Experts are skeptical a new rural health slush fund will fill Medicaid gaps, Colorado officials protest public land management cuts and tribes and rural communities sue the EPA over cancelled funding for flood and climate mitigation projects.

America's news desert problem could get worse with massive funding cuts to public broadcasting, federal cuts to AmericaCorps will eliminate volunteers in rural Oregon and a 140-year old South Dakota church thrives by welcoming all.

Rural Americans are bracing for a disproportionate impact from federal funding cuts to mental health and substance use programs, and new federal policies have farmers from Ohio to Minnesota struggling to grow healthier foods and create sustainable food production programs.

Farmers embrace voluntary conservation programs but federal funding chaos is causing a rethink, a rural electric cooperative in Colorado hopes to reduce customer costs by going independent and LGBTQ+ teens say online support is a lifesaver.