Northwest acute mental unit in Springdale adds beds for rising need
SPRINGDALE -- Northwest Health will offer care for more adults with urgent and serious mental health needs in the next few weeks, officials there said this mor…
SPRINGDALE -- Northwest Health will offer care for more adults with urgent and serious mental health needs in the next few weeks, officials there said this mor…
FAYETTEVILLE -- Northwest Arkansas skews younger than the rest of the state and the country, but its population is also growing at the other end of the age spe…
Northwest Arkansas skews younger than the rest of the state and the country, but its population is also growing at the other end of the age spectrum.
Homelessness by some measures has become more common in Northwest Arkansas in the past year, a regional group working to address the problem reported this week…
Competition for space, for people and for recognition from outside Northwest Arkansas has both nurtured and divided the Northwest Arkansas' communities for mor…
The full opening of Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital in Springdale this spring brings a local portal to advanced pediatric health care and helps the regi…
Northwest Arkansas's health systems continue to add space and services to care for more people.
Health care providers, public officials and law enforcement officers in Northwest Arkansas are changing how they deal with opioid prescription medications as d…
Arkansas public officials don’t know for sure how many of the state’s residents are dying because of opioid painkillers and other drugs but are working to chan…
SPRINGDALE -- Almost $12,000 in classroom grants will go toward programs in robotics, biofuel engineering, music and journalism throughout the Springdale Schoo…
Northwest Arkansas is showing the early signs of an affordable-housing shortage but can avoid a full crisis if its people can work together now, local and nati…
Northwest Arkansas is showing early signs of an affordable housing shortage but can avoid a full crisis if its people can work together now, local and national…
Northwest Arkansas has a good start on making its city centers walkable and bikeable but must progress further and in new directions to become truly pedestrian…
Washington Regional Medical Center’s new CEO wants the not-for-profit health system to be the best place to give and receive health care even as the region ne…
Randy Serrano remembers his house shaking as Hurricane Maria roared outside. The wind, near 150 mph, pulled and pried at all of the doors and metal window shut…
Randy Serrano remembers his entire house shaking as Hurricane Maria roared outside. The wind, near 150 mph, pulled and pried at all of the doors and metal wind…
Northwest Arkansas and the rest of the state can expect a healthy economic year with thousands of new jobs created, a regional economist said Friday.
Northwest Arkansas is taking a census of its homelessness as local nonprofit groups deploy new tools to fix the problem.
SPRINGDALE -- Students have once again used technology courses and district equipment to help one of their own.
SPRINGDALE -- The Tyson Family Foundation will give $1 million to Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital to establish an endowment, the foundation announced Fr…
SPRINGDALE -- The Tyson Family Foundation will give $1 million to Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital to establish an endowment, the foundation announced to…
The federal government is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to Northwest Arkansas groups fighting homelessness.
Northwest Arkansas' increasingly mixed and diverse community helps its economy stay strong and its quality of life high, a panel of experts from Tyson Foods, W…
Thousands of people who left violence and other problems in El Salvador live in Northwest Arkansas. Now some might have to leave.
School District officials hope to have a design in hand by next month to expand the Don Tyson School of Innovation, deputy superintendent Jared Cleveland told …
The nearly finished Arkansas Children’s Northwest hospital received another $1 million donation, the latest from the Whitaker Family Foundation, the hospital a…
Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital will open its doors for outpatient care Tuesday after about two years of fundraising and construction, hospital officia…
Northwest Arkansas likely will remain eligible to take in refugees despite U.S. State Department changes revealed last month, two advocates said in recent week…
SPRINGDALE -- The School District is preparing for the end of a $26 million grant.
SPRINGDALE -- The nearly finished Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital received another $1 million donation, the latest from the Whitaker Family Foundation, …
The nearly finished Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital received another $1 million donation, the latest from the Whitaker Family Foundation, the hospital a…
FAYETTEVILLE -- The 7 Hills Homeless Center's move to the southern part of town has done a lot of good for the area while bringing some drawbacks, members, nei…
FAYETTEVILLE -- The 7 Hills Homeless Center's move to the southern part of town has done a lot of good for the area while bringing some drawbacks, members, nei…
Michael Moore got out of jail last summer. He was homeless, unemployed and recovering from drug addiction. He often walked more than 10 miles a day from Rogers…
The cost of housing is a growing burden for tens of thousands of lower-income families in Northwest Arkansas cities, leaving many of them stuck with high bills…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to hear from anyone who had contact with a pediatric surgeon who worked in Northwest Arkansas for a decade after he w…
Marshallese parents are turning out in growing numbers to talk with School District officials and share concerns and wishes for their children, the English lea…
Northwest Arkansas' transit system is designed in a way that covers a lot of people but is so spread out that it can't provide timely service with short waits …
All of Northwest Arkansas’s refugees are officially settled following the months of cultural and English classes, job placement help and other direct assistanc…
Northwest Arkansas' public transportation system can't be successful as it's designed, a transit expert told area leaders this month.
The Marshallese community is working to provide more of its people with a higher education.
The Marshallese community is working to send more of its people into higher education.
SPRINGDALE -- Northwest Arkansas industries need people who can fix and maintain increasingly complex machinery, and they're partnering with Northwest Arkansas…
SPRINGDALE -- Northwest Arkansas industries need people who can fix and maintain increasingly complex machinery, and they're partnering with Northwest Arkansas…
FAYETTEVILLE -- A years-long legal dispute between two of Northwest Arkansas primary cancer treatment centers continued this week with another slew of claims o…
Career education and job training can't neglect the so-called soft skills, things such as working with or leading a team and managing time well, experts told …
Shortfalls in Pacific Islander health are an old problem that can only be solved with new ways of thinking, experts said at a recent conference.
Shortfalls in Pacific Islander health are an old problem that can only be solved with new ways of thinking, experts said at a recent conference.
A mental health care provider in Northwest Arkansas is dropping its outpatient and school-based services at the end of the year.
A group of Northwest Arkansas oncologists has accused area doctors of participating in a fraud scheme netting them hundreds of thousands of dollars in Medicare…