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The Mountain Home Advertising and Promotion Committee agreed Thursday to support next year's Sowbug Roundup and a local bass club's bid to host a state

Monday is the first day public schools in Arkansas can open, with most in the Twin Lakes Area beginning classes. School opens today in the Norfork, Cotter,

JACK SCHNEDLER

In T.S. Eliot's iconic poem "The Waste Land," April is the cruelest month. In Arkansas, even with the balm of air conditioning, the cruelest month is often August. Our summer's fiery furnace keeps pumping out the heat, while cooler autumn weather seems a distant fantasy.

Striped bass on the Atlantic Coast may travel hundreds of miles from the ocean to freshwater bays to spawn. Thanks to the efforts of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists, some landlocked stripers in Beaver, Norfork and Ouachita lakes can claim a spawning run measuring thousands of miles. Hatchery staff transported a load of striped bass fingerlings in early July from Watha, N.C. on a 2,200-mile road trip that lasted nearly 72 hours from start to finish. Typically, striped bass stocked i...

Norforks Elementary school prepares to roll out new literacy program Norfork High School Principal Bobby Hussle used to say “a Norfork kid can” when speaking about the students in the school district before his death in January. And while the proud Panther may no longer be stalking the halls, teachers at Arrie Goforth Elementary were hard at work Wednesday ensuring the next generation of Norfork children receive the opportunity to live up to the legendary Panther’s words. Jennie Riley, dy...

Born and raised in Illinois, Tim Riggs is a simple man. He likes to go fishing and camping. His favorite spot is the campgrounds beneath the Norfork Dam, where both of his parents used to work after they moved to Mountain Home. A truck driver by trade, Riggs shifts gears as he drives along US-412 West heading towards Harrison, Arkansas. The delivery truck he’s driving is a loud one. Its engine and overhead AC unit are screaming as Riggs takes the truck through the twists and turns of the...

System of sharing information to law enforcement thing the raw intelligence on threats made to the capital was sent to their police partners in under an hour. he also vowed the agency will do better in the future. >> the norfork report that you referenced was a specific piece of raw unverified intelligence that emerged on january 5th. it was quickly passed. not one, not to come but three different ways to the capitol police. you can be darn sure that we are going to be looking at hard at how we ...

A fire caused damage to a power substation by the Norfork Dam and an outage to over 4,000 members of North Arkansas Electric Cooperative. The cooperative is reporting a regulator is on fire in the Norfork substation, and it has also been affecting the Pineville and Sycamore Springs substations. According to a Baxter County 911 dispatch spokesperson, several fire crews are on the scene, and motorists are asked to avoid the area north of Salesville on Arkansas Highway 177 if possible. No cause of...

Substation by Norfork Dam in northern Arkansas catches on fire after lightning strike Christopher Replogle © Provided by Jonesboro KAIT Fire at a power substation near Norfork Dam in northern Arkansas. PINEVILLE, Ark. (KY3) - A lightning strike caused a fire to an electrical substation Sunday afternoon near the Norfork Dam in northern Arkansas, leading to thousands of power outages. A fire broke out at the North Arkansas Electric Cooperative in Pineville, Arkansas after the l...