We're not done with 2025 quite yet! Here are some of our favorite rural movies, TV shows, and more from the past year.

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

At 17 I was the Santa Claus for the Walkertown section of Hazard. Rick Rosanova, the news guy at Channel 4, was Santa at the ...

A bill filed late last month would claw back $21 billion allocated to state governments to address the digital divide, marking another moment in the ...

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Priah Ferguson, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin in a scene from "Stranger Things" (Credit: Netflix via IMDb). Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the ...

Dave Nuss’s pickup rumbled down the dirt road, dark, rich soil turned up in fields on either side. The 69-year-old farmer gestured to one field then ...

It's true in both literal and figurative ways. The metal, hand-operated relic divides a state highway near the feed store and post office, two of few ...

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

The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy is a twice-monthly newsletter showcasing the best – and the worst – in rural media and entertainment. Rural Remix is a podcast feed that cuts through rural stereotypes ...

If you want to get away from cell phone service, there aren’t many places more remote than southeastern Colorado. This ranch country is also home to one of the most violent forms of weather: gigantic ...

Jefferson County Palestine Solidarity holds pro-Palestinian vigils in downtown Port Townsend on the weekends. (Photo by Linda Gallaher) Editor’s Note: The name Veronica Cussen, used in this story to ...