This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a ...

Each year, an estimated 80 million U.S. utility customers have trouble affording their monthly heat and electricity bills. Now, as the cost of energy climbs, experts say more people are at risk of ...

Matt Griggs fills up his tractor with fuel on Monday, May 5, 2025 at his farm in Humboldt, Tennessee. (AP photo/Kristin M. Hall) When Carol Kolseth got her biopsy results back after a routine ...

On a recent visit to Washington Island, I did what I've been doing for the past 30-plus years: I went to Nelsen's Hall for a shot of bitters. Despite its ...

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

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 ...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Standing atop Ferry Butte, Frances Goli scanned the more than half a million acres of ...

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.

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Medication-delivering drones and telehealth at local libraries are among the ideas state leaders ...

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