Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said as hot winds fanned "hectic" ...

In the largest group filing in recent history, nearly 30 members of the Indiana Rural Summit coalition formally filed to be ...

What contributes to rural livability in the US? It depends on who you are and what you want from your community.

Rural communities nationwide are fighting massive AI data centers over land use, water, power costs and secret deals with ...

A county courthouse, lit up, shines brightly in Minden, Nebraska, in December 2025. The yearly tradition has given Minden the title of "The Christmas City" and is one of the reasons visitors flock to ...

John Winger was facing a dilemma: He wanted to retire from running his independent, small-town grocery store, but he didn't want to leave his local community in the lurch. Apart from his store, Royal ...

Eighteen Rhode Island towns, including some of the state's wealthiest, are designated as rural and eligible for the funds.

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture ...

As a renewed push is underway to update provincial funding, Alberta's libraries in small towns and rural counties are feeling ...

The biggest issue facing rural Minnesota is not the lack of economic opportunities or the continuing exodus of young people, says Kelly Asche, program coordinator of the Center for Small Towns, based ...

Less than an hour outside downtown Raleigh, the landscape shifts from glass towers to pine forests. The traffic thins, the pace of hectic activity (I call this hectivity) slows, and you start to see a ...

Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall speaks at the Saturday, March 1, 2025, town hall meeting in Oakley, Kansas. OAKLEY, Kansas — Critics of actions by president Donald Trump shouted down Republican ...