WINNING COACH — AHS Badger football coach Trey Schucker with a trophy earned in 2024. | Arkadelphia Public School District Facebook page Head AHS Badger football coach Trey Schucker announced Thursday, April 23, 2026, that he is leaving Arkadelphia to take another coaching position in Central Arkansas. Coach Schucker, who led the Badgers for six successful seasons with an overall 60-15 record, is uprooting Arkadelphia to coach the Sylvan Hills Bears, a 6A program based in Sherwood. Schucker called it an “honor and a privilege” to lead the Badgers who, under his leadership, were 4A-7 champs three years running and…
DATA CENTER ON THE HORIZON? — The first slide of a presentation hints of a proposed data center that would be located about 5 miles south of Arkadelphia at the Southwest Arkansas Mega Site in Gum Springs. | arkadelphian.com photo by Joel Phelps This post was updated 4/22/26 to include an audio recording and transcript of the meeting in its entirety. Both can be found below the original article under the heading titled "A transcript of the meeting". By JOEL PHELPS | arkadelphian.com A data center could very well be coming to Clark County, Arkansas, following a vote Thursday, April…
Clark County’s unemployment rate for January 2026, not seasonally adjusted, was at 5.4%, according to a preliminary county-by-county report released this week by the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services. According to the report, Clark County had a labor force of 9,744 persons with 9,221 employed and 523 unemployed. The unemployment rate rose by nine-tenths of a percentage point from the December report of 4.5%. Since the last report, the labor force fell by 256 from an even 10,000 persons. The latest statistics are on par for the same period in 2025, when Clark County reported an unemployment rate of 4.5%…
By ANTOINETTE GRAJEDA | Arkansas Advocate A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law set to take effect Tuesday that would have restricted minors’ social media access. Tech industry trade group NetChoice in January filed a lawsuit challenging Act 900 of 2025, which sought to amend a 2023 law found to be unconstitutional. The earlier law and the reworked version would have required age verification to create new social media accounts. A federal judge declared the 2023 law unconstitutional and permanently blocked it last year. In Monday’s 24-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks said NetChoice was likely to succeed on its vagueness challenge…
Arkansas lawmakers this week gave initial approval to a measure aimed at assisting several newly formed smaller school districts, and rejected an effort to increase funding for an early childhood education program
The last time Arkansas was drought-free was the week of July 22, 2025
Clark County Retired Teachers heard from Tiffany Barnes, development coordinator of the Percy and Donna Malone Child Safety Center, in their April meeting
Drivers on Arkansas’ roadways are passing the word “Natural?” written with five-foot-tall metal letters and wire mesh and crammed with something very unnatural – manmade litter
Steve Ratcliff, a Henderson State University alumnus and native of Malvern, became the newest member of the College of Business Hall of Fame during an awards ceremony April 16
The Senate voted 34-0 to allow Magnolia Republican Sen. Steve Crowell to introduce his proposal increasing the homestead tax credit to $675. An Arkansas House committee approved an identical bill last week.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin on Wednesday formally cleared the way for the state to enforce a law regulating hemp-derived products following the conclusion of litigation challenging an earlier state measure banning the sale of these products
Hospitals in Jacksonville, Fort Smith and Camden have all cut services since January
Electricity and water don’t usually mix, but technological advancements in floating solar arrays open the potential to generate electricity while decreasing impacts on farm irrigation reservoirs and agricultural land
Dr. Moffat Zimba, chancellor of Northrise University, will visit Arkadelphia on April 26-27, 2026. Northrise University was the first private Christian university to be accredited in Ndola, Zambia.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at Thursday’s meeting at the University of Arkansas at Monticello unanimously approved a regulations package incorporating more than 200 changes to the AGFC Code of Regulations
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia
This is a roundup of felony charges filed April 1 through April 15, 2026, by the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office
Henderson State University’s Wind Ensemble will present two concerts in April that are free and open to the public
Benjamin Franklin was one of 17 children
The credit was $375 when Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders took office in 2023, and lawmakers have approved multiple increases that have raised the amount to $600
Arkansas’ strawberry crop is not only looking good, but is also running a little early this year
Several Arkansas residents have reported receiving calls from individuals identifying themselves as “Officer Jackson” with ICAC and demanding a return call regarding an alleged investigation
The increase was likely due to a combination of factors, including excellent weather during the hunt, a few strong years of reproduction and an increase in the number of adult gobblers on the landscape
The event will take place at Third Street Baptist Church
The celebration will feature live music from Los MX, a variety of authentic taco trucks, and a Kids Zone — complete with a Ferris wheel, bounce houses, temporary tattoos, and a piñata zone
Head AHS Badger football coach Trey Schucker announced Thursday, April 23, 2026, that he is leaving Arkadelphia to take another coaching position in Central Arkansas
The FutureMakers series is dedicated to celebrating the educators, mentors, and community partners who are preparing students for the careers of tomorrow
A Bearden man wanted in connection with a shooting in Pine Bluff was apprehended Tuesday following a high-speed chase in Jefferson County
