New England’s already high electricity prices have locals concerned about proposed AI data centers, three-quarters of Montana’s school districts report decreased absenteeism due to on-site health clinics and Missouri expands its trail system.

An Illinois university is trying to fill gaps in the nationwide pharmacy shortage, Alabama plans to address its high infant mortality rate using robots in maternal care and neighbors helping neighbors is behind a successful New England weatherization program.

The crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Minneapolis has created chaos for a nearby agricultural community, federal funding cuts have upended tribal solar projects in Montana and similar cuts to a college program have left some students scrambling.

Silver mining made Northern Idaho wealthy, but left its mark on people’s health, a similar issue affects folks along New York’s Hudson River and critics claim rural renewable energy eats up farmland, while advocates believe they can co-exist.

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota has repercussions for Somalis statewide, rural Wisconsinites say they’re blindsided by plans for massive AI data centers and opponents of a mega transmission line through Texas’ Hill Country are alarmed by its route.

Training to prepare rural students to become physicians has come to Minnesota’s countryside, a grassroots effort in Wisconsin aims to bring childcare and senior-living under the same roof and solar power is helping restore Montana s buffalo to feed the hungry.

Rural Appalachia is being eyed for massive AI centers, but locals are pushing back, some farmers say government payments meant to ease tariff burdens won’t cover their losses and rural communities explore novel ways to support home-based childcare.  

Debt collectors may soon be knocking on doors in Kentucky over unpaid utility bills, a new Colorado law could help homeowners facing high property insurance due to wildfire risk, and after deadly flooding, Texas plans a new warning system.

From electric oyster farming in Maine, to Jewish descendants reviving a historic farming settlement in New Jersey and the resurgence of the Cherokee language in North Carolina, the Daily Yonder looks back at 2025.

Farmworkers’ advocates say Trump administration cuts to ag workers’ wages will deepen poverty, another effort is underway to sell off national parks and a Colorado artist is practicing civil disobedience to protest their perceived politicization.