About Rural News Wire

Rural News Wire is a daily local news digest network covering small towns across the United States — the rural places that lost their daily papers, or never had them, but still have stories worth reading every morning.

How Rural News Wire's Daily Local News Digests Work

Every morning before sunrise, the system pulls the day's stories from each town's local papers, radio stations, and reporters. It summarizes them in clean, plain language, organizes them by source, and publishes a single daily digest for that town. Each digest opens with "Ty's Take" — an editorial paragraph drawn from the day's headlines.

It's the daily paper your town used to have, rebuilt for how news actually moves in 2026.

Who's behind Rural News Wire?

Rural News Wire is run by Ty McDuffey — former Managing Editor of the Big Horn County News (Hardin, MT) and the Big Timber Pioneer (Big Timber, MT). J.D. from UMKC School of Law. Missouri State University graduate. I've lived and reported in Las Cruces, the Chama Valley, and now the Lake of the Ozarks, where Rural News Wire is based.

I started this because the small towns I've lived in deserve daily local news. Most of them don't have it. The technology to fix that — clean aggregation, fast summaries, a daily editorial voice — finally exists. So, I built it.

Towns we currently cover:

Missouri: Lake of the Ozarks
Montana: Big Timber, Red Lodge, Billings
New Mexico: Las Cruces, Deming, Silver City, Alamogordo, Chama Valley & Abiquiú
Colorado: Pagosa Springs, Alamosa

More towns are coming. If yours isn't on the list and you'd like it covered, drop us a note.

How we cover towns
Each location has its own dedicated digest. We start by identifying the local sources that already do real reporting, such as the weekly paper, the radio station, or the daily newspaper, and aggregate from those. We never replace local journalism. In fact, we point readers to it. Every story in every digest links back to the original publisher.

Sponsor a digest
Local businesses can sponsor any town's daily digest, reaching readers in that specific community every single morning. See sponsorship details.

Contact
Ty McDuffey
Editor, Rural News Wire
ty@ruralnewswire.com