Environmental Group Reviews Goals
Studying public transportation, reducing plastic foam packaging and keeping more construction and demolition waste out of the landfill are some of the items members of the Environmental Action...
View ArticleWater Main Work to Close Portion of College Avenue
Two blocks of northbound College Avenue, between Center and Dickson streets, will be closed today and tomorrow, according to a city news release.
View ArticlePolice Arrest Registered Sex Offender
A Springdale man was arrested in connection with four counts of possession of child pornography.
View ArticleCity Looks to Add Departments
The city could soon have two new departments with new department heads.
View ArticleMan Arrested in String of Jewelry Thefts
A West Fork man is being held in the Washington County Detention Center in connection with 10 residential burglaries in rural Washington County, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office.
View ArticlePUBLIC MEETINGS: March 20th
Today Noon Rogers Parks and Recreation Commission — City Hall Annex, 113 N. Fourth St.
View ArticleRECORDS: March 20th
Arrests Bentonville • Police arrested a juvenile Tuesday in connection with commercial burglary at Parson Hills Elementary School, 2326 Cardinal Drive. The juvenile’s name and further details weren’t...
View ArticleAT A GLANCE: Commission Action
At A Glance Commision Action Rogers’ Planning Commission met Tuesday and approved: • A request from Damgoode Pies for a private club conditional use permit 3604 W. Walnut St. The property is zoned...
View ArticleSchool Gets Reading Award
Shaw Elementary School has been chosen this year’s state winner of the Exemplary Reading Program Award from the International Reading Association.
View ArticleTables Available For Sports Swap
Tables are still available for those wanting to sell sports gear and equipment at the Property Owners Assocition’s Sports Swap.
View ArticleTelemundo To Start NWA Broadcast
Northwest Arkansas will soon have another Spanish-language television network. Cory Glanton saw a need for a second Spanish station and anticipates launching a Telemundo affiliate in late April or...
View ArticleMan pleads not guilty to stabbing charge
A Springdale man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a capital murder charge related to a February stabbing death.
View ArticleNew Bentonville Harps opens doors
The new Harps Food store on North Walton Boulevard opened Wednesday morning, a day after its downtown location in the Midtown Shopping Center closed it doors.
View ArticleLaw seen as not enforced
The head of Arkansas’ Economic Development Commission said Monday that the state won’t start doing more business with companies owned by members of minority groups until agencies’ directors are...
View ArticlePanel rejects measure on tax credit
A bill to grant an income-tax credit for contributions to nonprofit groups that provide children with private-school scholarships failed to clear an Arkansas Senate committee Wednesday.
View ArticleFEMA tornado-housing site in Joplin set to close
A site that housed as many as 586 mobile homes after a tornado struck Joplin, Mo., in 2011 is set to be cleared by June 7, Joplin city officials said.
View ArticleAquatic center’s funding put off
The Sebastian County Quorum Court has delayed until May consideration of an ordinance appropriating $4 million for a joint county /Fort Smith aquatics center so the Quorum Court can concentrate on...
View ArticleBill would cut rules for water
State agencies and public-interest groups are voicing concerns over proposed legislation that would lift regulatory burdens from municipalities and industries discharging minerals into Arkansas waterways.
View ArticleThe state/region in brief
Alma 6-year-old dies in ATV crash Authorities in Crawford County say a 6-year-old boy has died after the all-terrain vehicle he was riding on flipped over and landed on top of him.
View ArticleNW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Changing behavior is what we must do to improve the health of the people of this state.” Dr. Joe Bates, deputy director and chief science officer at the Arkansas Department of Health,...
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