Awards Represent High School Career
Awards and the honors leading up to graduation started at Heritage High School on Thursday with the Annual Academic Awards.
View ArticleWaste District Seeks Reduced Fee Split
Benton County Solid Waste District officials hope a bill in the state Legislature will allow the district to retain waste assessment fees levied on residents and not have to split them evenly with...
View ArticleCommissioners Move Forward With Business Plan
Airport commissioners want to put the Rogers Municipal Airport on more than just the Arkansas map.
View ArticleCollege Official Resigns
A NorthWest Arkansas Community College administrator announced this week his intention to resign.
View ArticleWater Project More Than Half Complete
A construction project to bring water service to hundreds of customers in southeast Washington County could be completed by mid-to-late July, members of the county’s Rural Development Authority heard...
View ArticleMan With Gun Case Spurs Lockdown
Concern about a man carrying what appeared to be a rifle case led to brief lockdowns of several schools Thursday.
View ArticleLeaders Need To Listen, Communicate
The best leaders treat people as they themselves want to be treated.
View ArticleTraffic Stops Lead To Arrests
Benton County Sheriff’s Office deputies recovered drugs and guns after two traffic stops Wednesday.
View ArticleStudents Simulate Homelessness
A desire to create community awareness of the local homeless issue led two Springdale High School students to organize an overnight vigil scheduled to conclude this morning.
View ArticleOfficials OK Sheriff’s Computer Program
Some reassuring words smoothed the way for Benton County’s justices of the peace to approve a grant application to help the Sheriff’s Office obtain a new computerized information-sharing program.
View ArticleSchool District Leave Policy Revised
Revisions to a leave policy for support staff were approved by the Fayetteville School Board on Thursday over the objections of three members.
View ArticleCommission Awards Money
The Advertising and Promotion Commission doled out $15,500 on Thursday to organizers for events in the next year.
View ArticleDriver arrested, passenger at large
Police are looking for a vehicle passenger who fled and fired an unknown type of gun following a traffic stop early Friday morning in Rogers, according to a news release.
View ArticleTwo escape injury in West Fork fire
Firefighters battled a two-story house fire Friday morning on Sugar Mountain Road in West Fork. Tyler McCartney, assistant fire marshal, said a teenage boy escaped the home by jumping from a second...
View ArticlePolice: Report of gunman near school unfounded
A Springdale elementary school was locked down Friday morning after a report that a man had fired a handgun nearby, but police found nobody matching the description, according to a news release from...
View ArticleKing says he’s dropped bill on election panels
A proposal that would have changed the composition of county election commissions across Arkansas won’t be pursued during this session of the state Legislature.
View ArticleNOTEWORTHY DEATH
Griffiths, uncle in Harry Potter films, 65 British actor Richard Griffiths, best known for playing muggle Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter movies, has died.
View ArticleNW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I think the more the public finds out about this, the more outraged they are going to be that it’s just moving so fast.” Bill Kopsky, executive director of the Arkansas Public Policy...
View ArticleFire Destroys Home
Firefighters battled a two-story house fire Friday morning on Sugar Mountain Road in West Fork.
View ArticleHay Commitments To Be Taken Monday
The city will begin taking requests Monday for hay grown on a field near the Noland Wastewater Treatment Facility.
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