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The Fort Smith Board of Directors for the second time rejected a resolution that would place a change-of-government question on the November general election ballot. The vote fell along similar...
Fayetteville-chartered Arvest Bank said its 16th annual Million Meals campaign raised more than $214,000 to help over 30 food partners in Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith metro area to...
Fort Smith celebrates America's 250th birthday at Mayor's Fourth Hundreds gathered at Fort Smith's Riverfront Park for the 250th Independence Day celebration, marking Mayor McGill's farewell at the annual ev...
Kendall Ross, associate vice chancellor for economic and workforce development at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS), is one of 45 “rising academic and administrative professionals” selected...
City of Fort Smith tax revenue posted healthy gains in the May report, with the city’s portion of the Sebastian County 1% tax up more than 7% and more than...
Following are recent news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Van Buren Honors The Van Buren School District is inducting four alumni into the Van Buren High School (VBHS)...
The Oklahoma City Thunder further reduced their potential luxury tax bill for next season by agreeing to trade elite three-point shooter Isaiah Joe to the Detroit Pistons for two second-round draft picks, a...
Fort Smith police confirm first seizure of 'extraordinarily dangerous' synthetic opioid
The Fort Smith Museum of History has reversed course on a plan to welcome a Freedom 250 truck to Fort Smith. The truck, a mobile museum, was to be in...
Fort Smith Sportsman picked up a ninth player Sunday, and it won a pair of games to clinch its first ever Mickey Huskey Twin Lakes Classic championship. Fort Smith, which had won a Saturday game …
Following are recent news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Military Support Van Buren-based USA Truck recently announced its Military Apprenticeship Program designed to provide career paths for those...
FORT SMITH -- The city Board of Directors is again set to vote on whether to place a initiative to change the way the city is governed on the ballot in November.
Mountain Home's Lockeroom American Legion Baseball team could not produce a clutch hit or manufacture any offense, stranding 12 baserunners in a 2-0 loss to Fort Smith Sportsman to open play Thursday …
FORT SMITH -- A convicted killer's civil lawsuit argues he received "substantial injuries" in a beating by Sebastian County jailers minutes after he stabbed two deputies a total of 12 times, leaving one with...
Of the 15 people who applied for Fort Smith city administrator as of June 11, 13 have government experience, and three have government management experience in areas as large or...
FORT SMITH — A 49-year-old convicted killer, who stabbed two local deputies multiple times in May 2025, is seen in a newly released, undated video in which he appears to be restrained and beaten by deputie...
Fort Smith-based Turn Key Construction Management has denied allegations by the Fort Smith Public School District related to problems with the district’s Peak Innovation Center, saying the district was not...
Fort Smith Regional Airport enplanements reversed course in May with a more than 2% decline, with traffic numbers out of the airport in the first five months of 2026 essentially...
Following are recent news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. ArcBest Tesla Trucks Fort Smith-based ArcBest, through its ABF Freight subsidiary, has purchased to Class 8 Tesla semi trucks....
The second attempt by the Fort Smith Board of Directors in almost 19 months to hire a new Fort Smith city administrator has garnered 13 candidates as of Thursday (June...
There were 1,010 homes sold in the Fort Smith metro between January and April, up 3.8% compared with the same period in 2025. The gain is up against a 2025...
Fort Smith officer Kyle Newman returns home weeks after being shot in the line of duty
First-quarter 2026 sales tax revenue is up broadly among the four Arkansas counties in the Fort Smith metro, with only Franklin County showing a quarterly decline compared with the same...
All six Arkansas and Oklahoma counties in the Fort Smith region posted average weekly wage gains in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the same quarter in 2024. Crawford...