BATESVILLE — First Community Bank has promoted Justin Taylor to events and community relations with the marketing department.

BATESVILLE — Gary Paxson, President and CEO of White River Health System (WRHS), is proud to announce the re-opening of Newark Medical Clinic on Dec. 1.

BATESVILLE — Gary Paxson, President and CEO of White River Health System (WRHS), is proud to announce the re-opening of Newark Medical Clinic on Dec. 1.

The Newport Greyhounds travelled to Prescott on Friday, Nov. 26, to take on the Curley Wolves in the third round of the 3A State Playoffs. The Curley Wolves defeated the Hounds 47-7 to end the season.

Created to honor the legacy of its namesake, the Kevin King Memorial Scholarship for the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund supports qualifying single parents in Sharp, Fulton, Lawrence, Randolph, and Jackson Counties by empowering them to continue their education and develop a solid fo…

It would be fair to say that for a good bit of our history, Americans paid scant attention to redistricting. The redrawing of congressional and legislative lines every ten years, sparked by population shifts captured by the Census, tended to pass unnoticed. Unless, of course, it involved som…

It would be fair to say that for a good bit of our history, Americans paid scant attention to redistricting. The redrawing of congressional and legislative lines every ten years, sparked by population shifts captured by the Census, tended to pass unnoticed. Unless, of course, it involved som…

The Swifton Middle School Leadership & Life Skills class comprises 44 seventh-graders and is taught by Mrs. Prisscilla Callahan.

In the late 1970s and through the 1980s, millions of people would tune in weekly to watch Dallas, a night-time soap opera about the tawdry scandals and business dealings of a Texas oil family. At the same time, a family of Texas oil barons transplanted from Arkansas was involved in schemes e…

The Newport Greyhounds hosted the Paris Eagles on Friday, Nov. 19, at Greyhound Field. The Hounds defeated the Eagles 28-17 for the second-round win of the 3A State Playoff season.

A leading industry manufacturer recognized an Arkansas State University-Newport student for his excellence in the Energy Control Technology program.

The Newport Area Chamber of Commerce has announced that Dr. Jabez Jackson, Jr. will serve as the Grand Marshal for the 2021 Newport Christmas Parade on Thursday, Dec. 9.

Tuckerman Cross County had a great showing at the 2A Region 2 Conference Championships.

On Thursday, Nov. 11, the Tuckerman Junior Bulldogs played in the finals of the Southside Junior High Tournament taking on the Junior Ramblers from Rosebud.

The Newport Greyhounds hosted the Lincoln Wolves on Friday, Nov. 12, at Greyhound Field. The Hounds defeated the Wolves 41-7 for the first-round win of the 3A State Playoff season.

Solar power is growing in popularity in Arkansas, in large part because of passage of Act 464 of 2019.

I am inspired this week by an assignment my wife is doing for a Law in Education class. Her assignment was to write about religion in school and particularly release time for religious classes. It is an interesting assignment for her because, unlike most of her class, she grew up in a state …

It’s a cliché to say that everything’s connected. But we live in a world where this is clearly true. Ideas, goods, services, workers, tourists, commerce, communications, drugs, crime, migrants, refugees, weapons, climate impacts … and, of course, viruses: They all cross borders constantly.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Monday that he sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra addressing his concerns for the proper care of unaccompanied minors in Arkansas that have come from the U.S.-Mexican border.

You might hear people say owning guns and carrying them around everywhere we go is a god-given right.

She was once one of the most talked-about and influential women in Washington, D.C. In the end, her life was destroyed as an innocent bystander in one of the most serious political scandals of all time.

November 11 is the day we pause every year to honor the surviving veterans who served the United States in a branch of our armed forces.

‘Time is not on our side.” That was the secretary-general of the UN’s World Meteorological Organization, Petteri Taalas, speaking early in October about a new report on the globe’s looming water crisis. Climate change, the WMO warns, is producing more flooding, more drought, and other water-…

So we turned our clocks back an hour to leave daylight saving time behind and go back to standard time.