Bentonville council accepts $250,000 grant for e-bikes despite some members’ concerns
BENTONVILLE -- The City Council accepted a grant to help Bentonville residents afford electric bikes despite two council members' reservations about the city g…
BENTONVILLE -- The City Council accepted a grant to help Bentonville residents afford electric bikes despite two council members' reservations about the city g…
FAYETTEVILLE -- State government wants other Arkansas hospitals to follow Washington Regional Medical Center's lead in opening slots for new medical residents …
While the recent cold might have been shocking to anyone out in it, the record low temperatures seen over the past few mornings are neither uncommon nor a harb…
The record low temperatures seen over the past couple mornings are neither uncommon nor a harbinger of things to come, according to the National Weather Servic…
FAYETTEVILLE -- Travel distance is an obvious factor in the proposal to move some mail distribution from Fayetteville to Oklahoma City, but not the only one, t…
FAYETTEVILLE -- Opponents to racial progress are organized and acting strategically, more so than advocates for justice, author Nikole Hannah-Jones told a crow…
A virulent strain of malaria caused the death of a truck driver found in a Mansfield grocery store parking lot in November, a state Crime Laboratory autopsy de…
TONTITOWN -- Air quality tests near the Eco-Vista landfill found "elevated readings of sulfur dioxide," prompting the state to ask for more extensive tests, do…
The American Red Cross of Northwest Arkansas needs more volunteers, the organization says.
Most Northwest Arkansas municipalities ban shooting fireworks in city limits to celebrate New Year's, but there are exceptions, a review of local ordinances sh…
The state got help from the Arkansas National Guard on Thursday to sample air quality in Tontitown after receiving a rash of complaints about noxious fumes aim…
ROGERS -- The $1 billion economic impact of training foreign fighter pilots at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith will spread to Northwest Arkansas a…
FARMINGTON -- The Farmington School District is about $900,000 better off now than it was this time last year, the School Board heard Monday.
SPRINGDALE -- The Children's Safety Center of Washington County will host a grand opening of its new home Tuesday -- a facility bigger, more visible to the com…
Plans to move 13 jobs from the U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Fayetteville to Oklahoma City make no sense, all 27 of those who spoke out at Wednesd…
TONTITOWN -- The city will appeal the state's approval of the Eco-Vista landfill expansion in court, Mayor Angie Russell said Monday.
Common Ground AR, a nonprofit group that sought to reduce partisan tension in the state Legislature by focusing on shared interests, has gone inactive, accordi…
About 200 housing units with rents estimated to be between $450 to $800 a month, depending on the size of the unit, will open in Bentonville by late 2025, acco…
The Northwest Arkansas Processing and Distribution Center of the U.S. Postal Service would lose an estimated 12 staff and one management position under a propo…
FAYETTEVILLE -- U.S. Rep. Steve Womack objected Tuesday to both the proposal to move some mail sorting operations out of Fayetteville and to the lack of notice…
FAYETTEVILLE -- The U.S. Postal Service is considering moving an unspecified amount of mail processing operations out of Fayetteville to Oklahoma City, the ser…
The season's cold weather puts more strain on the 211 hotline than the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the president of the United Way of Northwest Arkansas.
FAYETTEVILLE -- The City Council extended the sunset provision allowing short-term rentals in Fayetteville for another year, but not without opposition.
None of the Oklahoma attorney general's arguments against dismissing a federal court judgment against Arkansas poultry companies makes the evidence in the case…
Consider everybody there -- including yourself, said caregivers to Alzheimer's and dementia patients when asked for advice on holiday gatherings with a loved o…
The coalition drafting a proposed amendment to enshrine the state Freedom of Information Act into the state constitution expects to have a final draft within a…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services awarded $250,000 to Fayetteville-based nonprofit group Arkansas United to help immigrants gain citizenship and integr…
Benton County voters will decide two Republican primaries and one Democratic one for state legislative seats. Sebastian County voters have a Republican primary…
ROGERS -- The City Council unanimously accepted a $1.35 million grant agreement with the Walton Family Foundation to put bike lanes along 13th Street, a move s…
CENTERTON -- Rep. Grant Hodges, R-Centerton, will not seek reelection, he confirmed Thursday.
Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, told a Bentonville crowd Wednesday he has a more "firm view of the afterlife" from attending the He…
BENTONVILLE -- As he sought to help find ways to enhance school safety, actor Matthew McConaughey was "surprised" by the effectiveness of getting lawmakers of …
SPRINGDALE — WEHCO Newspapers, Inc. will consolidate its printing in Little Rock, announcing plans Tuesday to cease printing at the company’s plant in Springda…
State senators usually get four-year terms. But three Senate seats in Benton and Washington County that were up for election in 2022 will be open again when ca…
State Sen. Clint Penzo, R-Springdale, is considering a congressional bid, he confirmed Thursday after a "Penzo for Congress" website appeared on the internet b…
Housing prices and homelessness predominated among a variety of issues addressed in a candidate forum in Fayetteville's Ward 1 City Council special election.
Mediation efforts to end the dispute over pollution of the Illinois River by Arkansas poultry companies have failed, according to a document filed in Oklahoma’…
Simply putting the state Freedom of Information Act into the Arkansas Constitution turned out to be not so simple, amendment supporters say.
Simply putting the state Freedom of Information Act into the Arkansas Constitution turned out to be not so simple, amendment supporters say.
The public insists that public officials who willfully withhold public records or conduct public business in secret should be sued, according to supporters of …
BENTONVILLE -- Gov. Sarah Sanders began her Bentonville "capital for a day" events Tuesday by greeting 700 visitors drawn from 50 states at the Walmart Stores …
BENTONVILLE — Gov. Sarah Sanders began her Bentonville “capital for a day” events Tuesday by greeting 700 visitors drawn from 50 states at the Walmart Stores I…
BENTONVILLE -- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday declared Bentonville will be state "capital for a day" today. She will host a meeting with chiefs of her a…
ANDERSON, Calif. — Police arrested a Rogers woman Saturday in connection with kidnapping her eight children from foster care in Arkansas.
SPRINGDALE -- A Springdale High School student was arrested Monday for having a firearm in his vehicle on school grounds, according to a news release from the …
Samaritan Community Center of Rogers saw a 30% increase in the number of new families coming through its doors compared to this time last year, the nonprofit's…
The Eco-Vista landfill should be allowed to continue its plans to expand despite objections from neighboring Tontitown, an administrative law judge ruled Tuesd…
ROGERS -- An estimated 2,000 participants, volunteers and supporters turned out Saturday for the Susan G. Komen Northwest Arkansas/Ozark More than Pink walk an…
LOWELL -- Arkansas State Police on Thursday arrested Lowell Police Officer Roy Eugene Mitchell, 45, on two counts of second-degree sexual assault.
The Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks hosted a moment of awareness on domestic abuse Wednesday during an event attended by at least 40 people and inclu…