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GOSHEN -- Goshen City Hall heard calls for Mayor Russell Strouds resignation Tuesday after the mayor fired a second city employee while the Goshen City Council looked for ways to limit Strouds authority over city spending and personnel decisions.

Boise's Timberline High School TREE club advocates for wolf protections after an Idaho Senate bill expanded the ability to kill them.

BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) — Timberline High School student Annie Birch Wright felt a connection to her school’s mascot because it wasn’t just another generic animal. The mascot is the wolf, which led to a real pack of wolves living in the nearby Boise National Forest being named for, symbolically adopted by and studied at […]

The hospital is filling up again as omicron escalates.

New covid-19 cases in Northwest Arkansas have increased 370% in the past week as the pandemic surges across the state and the U.S.

New covid-19 cases in Northwest Arkansas have increased 370% in the past week as the pandemic surges across the state and the U.S.

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The organizers of Bikes, Blues & BBQ should consider canceling or postponing this year's event because of taxed hospital resources and staff, the city's Board of Health agreed Wednesday.

The numbers of patients hospitalized with covid-19 in intensive care units and on ventilators in Northwest Arkansas hit all-time highs this week as area hospitals worked to meet the increasing demand.

Thursday, July 29, 2021 At least one hospital in Northwest Arkansas is making changes in light of the increasing number of COVID-19 infections in the region and across the state, while another is continuing on the same path chosen last April. In a news release issued last week, Birch Wright, the chief operating officer and administrator for Fayetteville-based Washington Regional Medical System, said the healthcare system would be moving to Phase 2 of its “COVID-19 Surge Plan.” “This allows u...