Clark County News

A special election next month will ask voters in Caddo Valley and Arkadelphia if they want to merge the two cities.

To merge or not to merge, that's the question people in Arkadelphia and neighboring Caddo Valley are being asked to decide.

Ten Arkansas counties have been named state disaster areas as a result of damage caused by heavy rains and flooding that began on April 27.

"Last week, a citizen found a skunk around his dog pens and called Hope Animal Control.

American Red Cross disaster teams are working in communities across eastern and southern Arkansas with residents affected by flooding and uprooted trees from storms that hit the state Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

Gurdon PD is investigating a brawl that lead to police arresting 16 high school students and two parents.

Two Columbia County women were injured in an accident Monday in Clark County that left a Bismarck woman dead.

This time around, however, the group, A Vote for Growth, has made a few changes in ensure the signatures from the 38 percent of registered Clark County voters are valid and will hold up in court.

A group pushing to legalize alcohol sales in dry Clark County is getting a head start on its campaign, hoping to thwart the kind of legal challenges that kept the question from a vote last year.

Barbaree, 21, a senior at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, began volunteering at age 15 at the request of her mother, Royceann.

Gov. Mike Beebe will cut the ribbon at the grand opening of Arkansas first ever 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week child care center.

Not only is it bringing 46 new jobs to the area, it also helps parents who work late hours.

Recent headlines of a New Jersey father trying to regain custody of his 8-year-old son, kidnapped by his mother and taken to Brazil, is bringing more international child abductions into the spotlight, including one here in Arkansas.

A class-action lawsuit awaiting trial in Clark County Circuit Court and alleging that a payday lending company charged Arkansas customers illegal interest rates can proceed with its current lead plaintiff as the class representative, the state Supreme Court said Thursday.

The Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame inducted five new members whose leadership and service have brought distinction to Arkansas agriculture, the state's largest industry.

The Central Arkansas Development Council is offering free tax return preparation to low-income taxpayers in seven CADC communities.

Todd Turner, 42, officially took the office of chairman on Feb. 7 after Gov. Beebe announced Turner as his choice for party leader in late January.

Snaps from our time: The Democrats of Arkansas have, or soon will have, a new chairman.

Gov. Mike Beebe nominated Arkadelphia lawyer Todd Turner on Wednesday to be the new chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party.

A south Arkansas manufacturing plant that makes compressors will be laying off 100 employees, about a fifth of its workforce.