Around 90 percent of respondents in Missouri and Ohio call themselves Midwestern, but more than one-third of South Dakotans say their state is in the Great Plains or the West. At least Colorado ...

Grid operators serving Midwestern and Plains states push toward a $40 billion build-out to boost reliability and energy transition. Almost $40 billion worth of new high-voltage power lines in the ...

Midwestern states including Wisconsin, ... Midwest and Plains that experienced unhealthy air quality in the summer of 2023 due to smoke from out-of-control fires in Canada at the time.

Midwestern states are training people who regularly interact with farmers to be a new ... a collaboration of public radio newsrooms focusing on rural issues in the Midwest and the Great Plains.

The American Midwest spans 12 states between the Appalachian Mountains in the East and the Rocky Mountain states in the West. They include Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa ...

Many Midwestern and Great Plains states lost more college-educated residents than they attracted in 2022. That's part of a continuing trend. “Brain drain,” the migration of people with a ...

Midwestern and Southern states lead the U.S. in renewable energy generation. ... In 2025, abundant wind power in the Great Plains states, along with solar power, ...