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…
SPRINGDALE -- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday called criticism of the purchase of a lectern a "manufactured controversy" ginned up by critics, which has…
SPRINGDALE -- Hellstern Middle School students erupted in cheers when math teacher and robotics team coach Michael Tapee won a Milken Educator Award in a surpr…
FAYETTEVILLE -- The Washington County Quorum Court's County Services Committee recommended a nonbinding resolution declaring support for the state's Freedom of…
A Bentonville man pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding taxpayers of $16.5 million from the Paycheck Protection Program and other government relief meant to hel…
BENTONVILLE -- The secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs came to Bentonville on Tuesday to meet with community groups from across the state on …
BENTONVILLE – The secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs came to Bentonville on Tuesday to meet with community groups from across the state on v…
FAYETTEVILLE -- An Arkansas Department of Health investigation into an E. coli outbreak in Northwest Arkansas last month was unable to pinpoint the outbreak's …
Northwest Arkansas businesses and employment overall have recovered from the covid pandemic, federal government statistics show. But to recover, they had to su…
Work to expand the Eco-Vista landfill in Tontitown can proceed while appeals against the expansion are pending, the state Pollution Control and Ecology Commiss…
BENTONVILLE -- The United States gained 99 new citizens Tuesday, outnumbered three to one by family, friends and well-wishers at a naturalization ceremony in t…
BENTONVILLE -- The Benton County Quorum Court approved a pay increase for poll workers that will be included in the 2024 budget.
The Walton Family Foundation granted another $410,000 to Rogers city government Tuesday to complete renovation of the Victory Theater after workers found the f…
Disabled Arkansans are an underused pool of talented workers, a Walmart executive said during the opening of Northwest Arkansas' Welcoming Week on Friday.
Arkansas ranks as one of the five worst states at answering its own 988 calls for suicide prevention, according to a nonprofit group's state-by-state study.
No new cases reporting symptoms of E. coli have come in since Aug. 25, indicating the outbreak in Northwest Arkansas is past its peak, the University of Arkans…
BENTONVILLE -- The Scott Family Amazeum announced Thursday it received $2 million from Walmart and the Walmart Foundation.
