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The Yonder Report

May 13, 2026

Affordable housing in Wiscasset, Maine is stalled after a proposed data center disrupted plans, farms and ranches now account for 83 percent of solar projects and Colorado farmers turn to rye after a record-setting dry winter.


May 6, 2026

A dialysis unit has closed in rural Nebraska due to lower Medicare reimbursement rates, "deaths of despair" are slowly declining nationwide but still more common in Appalachia and a South Dakota rancher plants native grasses to fight drought.


Apr 29, 2026

A record wildfire season is predicted for parts of the U.S., An Illinois researcher says the Farm Bill is an opportunity to address more than just agriculture and one group is turning surrendered guns into garden tools and artwork.


Apr 22, 2026

Political attitudes among rural voters are shifting, maternity care is complex – and becoming more so in rural Illinois communities where demographics have changed and Minnesotans vow to fight efforts overturning a ban on mining in the Boundary Waters.


Apr 15, 2026

A loophole in reimbursement rates is partly to blame for rural hospitals closing, Maine may become the first state to ban large-scale data centers and farmers' financial woes are made worse by laws that prevent them from fixing their farm equipment.