The Yonder Report

Rural Appalachia is being eyed for massive AI centers, but locals are pushing back, some farmers say government payments meant to ease tariff burdens won’t cover their losses and rural communities explore novel ways to support home-based childcare.  

Debt collectors may soon be knocking on doors in Kentucky over unpaid utility bills, a new Colorado law could help homeowners facing high property insurance due to wildfire risk, and after deadly flooding, Texas plans a new warning system.

From electric oyster farming in Maine, to Jewish descendants reviving a historic farming settlement in New Jersey and the resurgence of the Cherokee language in North Carolina, the Daily Yonder looks back at 2025.

Farmworkers’ advocates say Trump administration cuts to ag workers’ wages will deepen poverty, another effort is underway to sell off national parks and a Colorado artist is practicing civil disobedience to protest their perceived politicization.