Legislators praise schools' workforce training; look for ways to ease programs
Arkansas should do more to encourage the kind of flexibility and experimentation in its public schools that led to Gentry's new technical education center, leg…
Arkansas should do more to encourage the kind of flexibility and experimentation in its public schools that led to Gentry's new technical education center, leg…
Arkansans looking to buy their own health insurance policies can renew or apply for coverage starting this week.
The Shewmaker family of Northwest Arkansas donated $1.5 million toward construction of a 60,000-square-foot Mercy Northwest Arkansas clinic, hospital officials…
SPRINGDALE -- Children who are immigrants or have at least one immigrant parent are more likely to live in or near poverty in Arkansas than their counterparts …
Fewer Northwest Arkansans, especially children, are living in poverty, new census estimates show.
ROGERS -- Nurturing the ancient human drives to create and explore can improve Arkansas' economy and transform schooling for every age, educators and other exp…
Northwest Arkansas-based startup companies that hope to eliminate the need for loose change, make solar energy more accessible or offer other services won thou…
Trauma in kids' lives often shows itself in outbursts and other disruptions at school, but teachers can help them handle powerful emotions in healthier ways, a…
Northwest Arkansans are creating jobs and businesses at a healthy clip and are more educated than in recent years, according to a University of Arkansas report…
Two federal programs that support the health care of thousands of low-income Northwest Arkansans expired this weekend, though Arkansas likely has a few months …
The network of groups helping Northwest Arkansans turn their ideas into businesses is growing -- again.
The Arkansas State Police is conducting an administrative review of the troop that patrols Northwest Arkansas following several incidents this year, a police s…
Public influenza vaccination clinics have begun in Northwest Arkansas as the annual flu season nears.
Hundreds of Marshallese kids will get a kick-start to their college savings under a local program that launches next month and aims to get more Marshallese int…
Hundreds of Marshallese kids will get a kickstart to their college savings under a local program that launches next month and aims to get more Marshallese into…
Regional planners have narrowed the list of Northwest Arkansas street and trail projects they hope will get federal transportation money next year.
The program allowing thousands of Arkansas teens and young adults to stay in the country may survive despite the president's decision to end it, political scie…
Northwest Arkansas groups this weekend are celebrating the region's immigrants as immigration takes the national spotlight.
SPRINGDALE -- Congress must quickly reauthorize a federal program that covers health care costs for tens of thousands of Arkansas children, advocates said Mond…
SPRINGDALE -- A contractual dispute between Northwest Health and insurance company UnitedHealthcare means patients of dozens of area doctors could have to pay …
Northwest Arkansas is burning through its supply of lots for homes, according to the most recent Skyline Report from the University of Arkansas and Arvest Bank.
A contractual dispute between Northwest Health and insurance company UnitedHealthcare means patients of dozens of area doctors could have to pay more or need t…
Northwest Arkansas immigrants and supporters reacted here and in front of the White House with dismay to President Donald Trump's decision to phase out legal p…
Ticks and the potentially serious diseases they carry are out in abundance in Arkansas this year, with experts urging hikers and hunters to watch out for the s…
Northwest Arkansas groups working to end homelessness are cooperating and sharing information in new ways, which several advocates said should reduce the probl…
Northwest Health will soon double its adult mental health care services for the region, the health system and other officials said this week.
Northwest Arkansas throws away thousands of tons of recyclable materials a year by putting so many bottles, cans and cardboard boxes in trash cans instead of r…
One of the state's highest-performing high schools lost its principal this week after her abrupt resignation.
Northwest Arkansas in recent years repeatedly has landed top spots in rankings of the best, most affordable and fastest-growing places to live in the country.
Arkansas Children's Hospital will use its Springdale location to help improve children's health and safety before they ever need to come to the hospital, the o…
BENTONVILLE -- Good intentions aren't enough to push someone's life in a new direction after prison, advocates and former inmates said Thursday.
Medical professionals across Arkansas are joining the state's budding medical marijuana business, though many health care providers remain ambivalent or are op…
Medical professionals across Arkansas are joining the state's budding medical marijuana business, though many health care providers remain ambivalent or are op…
Ozark Regional Transit will begin replacing its destroyed bus fleet by the end of the year, the service's director said Wednesday.
The plan to save the region's most essential open and natural areas has helped bring hundreds of acres under public and nonprofit protection in the past two ye…
The dispute over whether Lake Bella Vista should be restored to a free-flowing creek inched closer to a compromise Thursday, though different sides said they s…
Northwest Arkansas arts and culture groups draw hundreds of thousands of visitors and pump tens of millions of dollars into the region's economy, a survey rele…
Northwest Arkansas is home to more and more people of different skin colors, ethnic backgrounds and languages, the latest census data show.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Congressional Republicans "haven't learned how to govern" and must get used to accepting only part of what each of them might want at a time, A…
Northwest Arkansas' free medical and dental clinic is expanding its services to uninsured children, its director said.
The Trump administration's mixed approach to immigration enforcement has cheered some supporters and sown anxiety among Northwest Arkansas residents who lack v…
Majidi Shabani once lived in a small village on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, a 400-mile-long strip of water in south-central Africa. He was 19 when militiamen…
Tens of thousands of Northwest Arkansans and many more across the state could lose their health insurance under the Senate version of a Republican health care …
Northwest Arkansas' Pacific Islanders would lose access to government assistance for health coverage under a Senate Republican bill revealed Thursday, an immig…
A college degree isn't the only path to a successful and fulfilling career, business leaders, economists and educators across Northwest Arkansas say.
An Arkansas native with government experience in Washington, D.C., and California will return home to head the Northwest Arkansas Council, the group announced…
Nelson Peacock was named as the Northwest Arkansas Council president Tuesday during a press conference in Springdale.
SPRINGDALE -- Northwest Arkansas' growing Pacific Islander community needs more of its own members wearing nurse scrubs, medic uniforms and the white lab coats…
Training for Northwest Arkansas' nurses is changing to try to meet the region's growing needs and head off a looming shortage, nurses and other experts say.
The extraordinarily low unemployment rate that draws thousands of newcomers to Northwest Arkansas and could be lifting wages is approaching record levels, new …