The Oklahoma Attorney General has sued Arkansas poultry companies for damages to the Illinois River. But a federal judge says he can't proceed without the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff.

With 18 percent of the land but only three percent of the population, what's not to like about the Great Plains? A Census demographer reviews 57 years of population change in the Plains.

Two years ago, the Daily Yonder began an index of rural stocks. So far, the Yonder 40 is doing better than the Dow Industrials and the S&P 500.

To get power from wind turbines to customers in the cities will require thousands of miles of new transmission lines. Wind is the easy part. Building the lines is tougher.