Local journalism in the U.S. remains at a crisis point: newsrooms that existed for decades have vanished or are at risk of disappearing. At the same time, there are urgent external crises that make the need for communities to receive information all the more critical – namely climate change.

The Rural Newswire exists in order to help provide resources to newsrooms that serve rural communities. For editors and publishers looking for editorial support, all of our stories are free to redistribute, republish, and share.

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05/12/2025

Sinkholes and the people who love them

As climate change makes sinkholes more common, more and more people are finding "a love of all things holey."

05/09/2025

Trump calls program to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills ‘unnecessary’

First, the administration laid off all of the program's staffers. Now the White House is proposing cutting its funding.

05/09/2025

‘Neither Work Nor Home’: Dairy Queens as Community Hubs in Rural Texas

What happens when corporate shuts down your town’s meet-up spot?

05/07/2025

Coming this summer: Record-breaking heat and plenty of hurricanes

Forecasters are predicting higher temperatures across the U.S. and up to 10 hurricanes. Cutting federal programs could leave people even more vulnerable.

05/07/2025

A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia

The tick that causes Lyme can also spread babesiosis — and researchers fear doctors in the mid-Atlantic don't know about it.

05/05/2025

Study: Drone Technology Has Potential to Help Rural Healthcare

The study found patients at the receiving end of drone deliveries were eager to “embrace” the new technology and expressed willingness to use it again in the future.

05/02/2025

Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days

The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. We made a timeline to show you what happened.

05/02/2025

45 Degrees North: Freezer Culture

Want to better understand rural people and how we think? Try taking a peek in our freezers.

05/02/2025

Q&A: Making a Home in a Region Founded on Displacement

“Beginning Again” is an oral history project that tells 12 stories of people who ended up in Appalachia for one reason or another — all told in their own words.

05/01/2025

100 days in, does Trump still ‘dig’ coal?

Presidents have long used coal miners as political props. Yet federal policies have done little to improve their lives, and some things have actually gotten worse.

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