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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04/28/2025

Cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities Hit Rural Montana, Other States Hard

A group serving some of Montana's smallest and most remote areas has seen devastating cuts to its programming. Sudden forced pivot to private donors proves challenging, administrators say.

04/25/2025

45 Degrees North: The Ice Storm Election

Here's the story of $100 million in campaign spending and how systems that secure our elections work in a rural area — even when the sky is falling.

04/25/2025

Preserving Cherokee Language Ten Books at a Time

A collaboration between the New Kituwah Academy and Western Carolina University produces screen-printed books for learning Cherokee in a way that captures and reflects cultural sensibilities of the Tribe.

04/24/2025

Commentary: Rural Americans Need the Trump Administration to Provide an Additional Path to Fight Obesity

By expanding and providing federal coverage of obesity medications and other proven treatments, Trump’s administration would make a first, crucial step in helping stem obesity, hurting millions in America.

04/24/2025

Introducing ‘Twang’: Telling The Story of Country Music Like it is

In a new podcast from Rural Remix, reporter Lane Wendell Fischer explores country music's origins and evolution from the 1927 Bristol Sessions to Beyonce's Cowboy Carter.

04/23/2025

Amid Ongoing Threats to Local Food Systems, Alaska Native and Rural Alaskan Leaders Imagine Alternatives

Cascading environmental, economic, and political factors are making it increasingly challenging to put food on the table in rural Alaska. These communities are looking to the past, and the future, for solutions.

04/23/2025

Commentary: Rural America Needs Investment, Not Abandonment

Rural economies depend on access to healthy public lands. Congress has been gutting land-management agencies and is now talking about selling off these public assets to private investors.

04/23/2025

America Is Not Immune to Fascism

Donald Trump is trying to dismantle the entire government.

04/22/2025

Commentary: If Democracy Collapses in America, It Won’t Be the First Time

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring.

04/21/2025

Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffalo

"Bringing the buffalo back is about our relationship with them, not domination over them."

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