A large wildfire Saturday in the Manchester community southeast of Arkadelphia prompted county Judge Troy Tucker to issue a burn ban for Clark County. Until further notice it is illegal to burn outdoors. Saturday’s wildfire started just before 2 p.m. in the area of Church Drive and White Road, just north of Manchester Road. According to Tate Chanler, director of the county’s Office of Emergency Management, one home was damaged and one outbuilding was destroyed as a result of the brush fire that spread beyond the control of the person who ignited it. Volunteer and full-time firefighters from about a…
DALARK, Arkansas — Dallas County officials are charging a couple following the death of a little girl who fell from a moving tractor. Sheriff Mike Knoedl announced Friday that his agency was contacted by Clark County law enforcement late Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 24, 2026, regarding an accident involving a 3-year-old child who reportedly had been riding in a tractor’s front-end loader and fell from the moving vehicle on a property in the Dalark area near the Clark/Dallas county line. The girl suffered traumatic, crushing injuries and was sent to Arkansas Children’s Hospital where she later succumbed to her injuries. Her…
From Henderson State University Henderson State University has partnered with Arkansas Weather Watchers to provide real-time weather conditions and a live camera view for the campus and surrounding community. The installation includes a 360-degree live weather camera and a separate weather station that collects and displays current temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and other essential data. The system is part of a network delivering live weather feeds across Arkansas. It is the first Arkansas Weather Watchers installation in southwest Arkansas. “Arkansas Weather Watchers is an online, community-focused weather network designed to give Arkansans real-time information and tools to understand and respond…
PHOTO: Mary Franklin, director of the Division of County Operations, Arkansas Department of Human Services listens during a media briefing on Medicaid eligibility review. At right is Mark White, secretary of DHS. | John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate By AINSLEY PLATT | Arkansas Advocate Arkansas will begin checking the employment status of some Medicaid beneficiaries this summer under what’s being billed as a “soft launch” of work requirements that aren’t set to be enforced until next year. Mary Franklin, DHS’ director of the Division of County Operations, told lawmakers Thursday that the new work requirements under the “Big Beautiful Bill” spending and…
Democratic lawmakers called Saturday for Congress to weigh in on President Donald Trump’s order launching “major combat operations” in Iran, while Republicans largely provided cautious support of the attacks
Two veteran Arkansas lawmakers are fighting for their political lives in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, with a barrage of mailers and ads funded by outside groups casting them as insufficiently conservative against challengers backed by GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Bill Kopksy, executive director of the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and representative of the Protect AR Rights Coalition, will be the featured speaker at the March 2026 meeting of Clark County Democratic Women
In light of multiple school districts across Arkansas severing ties with Lifetouch photography over concerns that its parent company’s former owner and alleged links to the Jeffrey Epstein files, Arkadelphia Public Schools will not drop its current contract with the company
This is a roundup of felony charges filed Feb. 13-27, 2026, by the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office
The National Weather Service in Little Rock says there is increasing confidence for a wet and stormy pattern over the south-central part of the U.S. through the first few weeks of March 2026
The rising cost of Arkansas’ school voucher program has prompted concerns from Democrats and some rural Republican legislators who say it will be devastating to public schools
Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know them at the genetic level
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
The following incidents were gathered from reports filed Feb. 23 through March 1, 2026, at the Arkadelphia Police Department and Clark County Sheriff’s Office
Joe Belt McNabb, age 88, of Arkadelphia died Thursday, February 26, 2026 at CHI-St. Vincent Hospital in Little Rock
Vehicle accidents in South Arkansas have claimed the lives of three people in recent days
Lists of prisoners held in Southwest Arkansas, with links provided
