2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (367+ words) It’s important, too, for voters to know how to make a write-in vote count. Local races. Top-of-ticket races get their share of write-ins, like the fictional presidential candidate Alfred E. Newman. Up and down the ballot, voters express dissatisfaction with…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (395+ words) Every week, Yonder Radio brings rural conversations with national reach to listeners around the country. We begin this week in Weiser, Idaho – a town battling a cat-astrophe. Reporter Astra Lincoln brings us the story of the rural town’s efforts to…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (429+ words) In 62% of nonmetropolitan counties and 58% of metropolitan counties, Evangelicalism was the dominant Christian denomination in 2020, the most recent year of available data. Evangelicalism was the most popular tradition in 60% of all U.S. counties at large. The term ‘adherents’ refers to individuals…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1600+ words) An empty 1,600-bed private prison has sat idly on land that was once a soybean field in rural Appleton, Minnesota since the prison failed and, as a result, tanked the town’s economy in 2010. Now, ICE is seeking to reinhabit the…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (932+ words) When Meredith Dean started the first Community Works chapters, she saw people reengaging in politics. “We were seeing more and more volunteers coming in who had been totally disillusioned with politics across the board, or had just been disengaged Democrats,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (345+ words) Dana Dominguez is a city council member in West Liberty, the first majority Latinx community in Iowa. Last year, West Liberty found themselves in the national spotlight after a local teenager was rapidly deported over Fourth of July weekend. I…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (359+ words) Every week, Yonder Radio brings rural conversations with national reach to listeners around the country. This week, we’ll start off hearing from Daily Yonder reporter Madeline de Figueiredo, who brings us a story about efforts to improve maternal health care…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (812+ words) Although the “Shiners” title alludes to the illegal distilling history of the area, the students claim it as something more: the way the experience brought out their best and celebrated their culture, giving students the chance to shine. And for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (251+ words) The Best in Rural Writing Contest has returned for 2026. The contest, organized by the rural writing collective The Milk House, welcomes both fiction and nonfiction submissions and hopes to showcase the best of rural stories from around the world. Milk…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1337+ words) Holly Warren was recently leafing through one of her old medical school textbooks, trying to recall how much instruction she’d received in addiction medicine – trying to recall, “Did we even talk about this? Was it even on our radar?” “And…...