New Downtown Housing Planned
Downtown could soon see five new upscale townhomes after the Planning Commission approved a rezoning request for a lot southeast of the square Tuesday.
View ArticleLibrary Offers Genealogy Resource
The Bentonville Public Library has a new free online genealogy resource thanks to a donation from the Northwest Arkansas Genealogy Society.
View ArticleHam, Bean Dinner Set
The city’s chapter of Order of the Eastern Star will hold a ham and bean dinner Friday at 805 N.W. Eighth St. in Bentonville.
View ArticleFleck Held In County Jail
A 12-year-old girl reported her mother woke her early Sunday morning and told her something “bad had happened” and didn’t want her or her siblings to see it, according to court documents released Tuesday.
View ArticleRoad Plan Moving Forward
A plan to pave more Benton County roads got a lukewarm endorsement from the Quorum Court’s Finance Committee.
View ArticleOklahoma Authorities Search For Fetus Remains
Police on Tuesday searched for the remains of a fetus reported buried on Serenity Drive in West Siloam Springs.
View ArticlePaneitz Will Be Presenter At Brown Bag Seminar
Becky Paneitz, president of NorthWest Arkansas Community College, will be the guest presenter at the March 14 Brown Bag Seminar hosted by the college’s Bella Vista Center.
View ArticleCommittee rejects recommended award in soccer goal death
The Joint Budget Committee on Wednesday rejected a recommended $1 million award in a wrongful death claim by the parents of a Bentonville boy who was killed when a soccer goal fell on him at school....
View ArticleMorales-Carrera pleads guilty, sentenced for murder
A Rogers man was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to the 2008 murder of his cousin’s wife. Sergio Morales-Carrera, 27, pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to murder in the first...
View Article35-Year Sentence Ends Case
Jose Carrera stood in a Benton County courtroom Wednesday morning and faced his cousin — the man who murdered his wife almost five years ago.
View ArticleLibrary Offers Technology Courses
The public library will help those new to social media became a bit more computer savvy through a series of technology classes this spring, director Hadi Dudley told the Library Advisory Board on...
View ArticleStudent Suspended For Bringing Gun
A Thomas Jefferson Elementary School third-grader was suspended this week for bringing an Airsoft gun to school.
View ArticleCommission Ponders Election Changes
Benton County’s Election Commission is still considering changes in how the county will hold future elections, but there is no decision in sight.
View ArticleBentonville man arrested in child porn investigation
A Bentonville man was arrested Wednesday in connection with possessing numerous images of child pornography. Josh Ivan Howard, 38, was being held Thursday in the Benton County Jail with a $15,000 bond...
View ArticleRockwell art is up at Crystal Bridges
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art expects record crowds over the next 11 weeks as a new exhibition by illustrator and painter Norman Rockwell (1894-1978 ) opens to museum members today and to the...
View ArticleCollege To Weigh Land Offer
NorthWest Arkansas Community College representatives continue to pursue land for the college’s first permanent facility in Washington County.
View ArticleBentonville Man Snagged In Undercover Operation
A Bentonville man was arrested Wednesday in connection with possessing numerous images of child pornography.
View ArticleResidents Review Eighth Street Plans
Plans for a new Interstate 540 interchange at Eighth Street are inching forward eight years after Congress earmarked $31 million for the interchange and a widened Eighth Street.
View ArticleCounty Eyes Street Maintenance
Benton County officials say they’re seeing an unanticipated legacy of growth from the 1990s and 2000s in a growing number of residential subdivision streets needing maintenance.
View ArticlePlans For Dam Back On Track
A plan to replace a leaking dam at Lake Bella Vista is back on track five years after floodwater damaged the structure.
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