Jackson County News

Where Elvis Presley walked, adoring fans follow, even more than 30 years after his death - if they just know where to go.

Arkansas rice farmers are past the prime period for planting, and cotton growers are getting close.

Jackson County received around one inch of rain overnight. The Black River continues to reach well beyond its banks, turning farmland into rivers and ponds.

Jackson County Detention Center may be a place where folks on probation end up if they make a mistake, but the center itself is the one on probation.

The meeting will launch Moving Jackson County Forward, a cooperative project of the Jackson County School District and the Newport Special School District.

As a result, the Storm Prediction Center has issued a Tornado Watch for most of the TN Valley except for Jackson and De Kalb counties in AL and Franklin County in TN until 8 PM.

Danny Nunemaker remembers when it began. He watched the White River wash over the plains towards his house.

On Thursday morning slushy ice on Highway 63 caused at least two cars to slide off the road and those drivers are not alone.

The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services has announced that those who qualify for unemployment insurance benefits will receive an additional $25 a week as part of the stimulus legislation recently passed ...

Family Council will now be allowed to intervene in a lawsuit which claims Act 1 is unconstitutional.

According to a news release, Americaa s Best High Schools recognizes three categories of distinction - gold, silver and bronze.

Northern Arkansas is in a world of hurt. Thousands of customers are still without power.

ASU Newport will be closed Batesville will be closed Calico Rock will be closed Cave City will be closed Cedar Ridge will be closed Clinton School will be closed Community School of Batesville will be closed ...

A single-vehicle accident involving a Ford Expedition left two people dead and two injured late Sunday afternoon.

Two people were killed Saturday evening when the vehicle they were in went off an entrance ramp to U.S. 67 in Jackson County, the Arkansas State Police reported.

The man was in the middle of getting away when all that changed. Police say Kevin Baltz, 18, raped an E-Z Mart employee early Friday morning in the store's restroom.

Officials with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department Monday said all of the county's law enforcement agencies would suffer if the state forced the jail to close.

NEWPORT a ' Jackson County justices of the peace agreed Tuesday night to replace two heating units at the countya TMs 26-bed jail in an attempt to ward off the jaila TMs permanent closure.

Two people have died on Arkansas highways in the first hours of the new year. In Carroll County, Arkansas State Police say 28-year-old Tricia B. Bowman of Blue Eye, Mo., was killed.

High winds from a storm front that came through the Tennessee Valley shortly after midnight destroyed several barns, snapped several trees and knocked down power lines in the Tupelo community near Scottsboro.