A coalition of nonprofits, tribes, and local governments is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the termination of $2.8 billion in ...

Quintissa Sherri Peake, who turned a life-altering diagnosis into a lifelong mission, died Friday, August 15, at the age of ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response ...

For more than 30 years, the Laclede Literacy Council has made a difference for rural Missourians seeking to improve their lives through the written word.

Interviews for this article were originally conducted in Spanish and translated to English by Anya Petrone Slepyan and Julia ...

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

Crop Circle Cinema explores why so many alien movies take place in rural America and what are they representing when they do?

I’ve taken quite a few courses on American cinema, which inevitably means I’ve spent a lot of time with the Western genre. From Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows to Spaghetti Westerns, I’ve consumed a ...

Renewable energy experts and developers in Texas are warning that rural communities could bear the brunt of the economic impact from changes to federal ...

According to a memorandum issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, an emergency situation can include natural disasters, like earthquakes and floods, or “catastrophic … failure to a facility,” like a ...