Pine Bluff Area News Today

Four people were killed in traffic-related crashes between Sunday morning and Monday morning on Pine Bluff-area roadways, according to authorities.

High school students taking part in Pathways Academys Pine Bluff program spent two weeks learning about leadership, health and nutrition during a summer intensive camp.

Just as Micheal Williams knew when to take a different career path – he was once a certified nursing assistant and industry chemist – he knew it was time to leave the prestige of coaching Texas high school football to take the reins of his alma mater's program.

The 13th annual Delta Arts Festival will feature art, music, literature and film in downtown Newport, including Pine Bluff-area artists.

The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas (ASC) is kicking off summer with Art Rocks: Summer Bash from 5-10 p.m. June 3 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 4.

Watson Chapel School District leaders have put a greater emphasis on safety in its secondary schools in the 14 months since an on-campus shooting at Watson Chapel Junior High School.

U.S. Sen. John Boozman traveled from the northwest corner of Arkansas, where he held roundtable discussions with business leaders about inflation, high energy costs and other economic hardships, to visit leaders of a Pine Bluff-area bank establishing a new three-story headquarters just off Interstate 530.

A team that went undefeated in Texas last season, a back-to-back Missouri state championship club, and a team with family ties to the NBA will join three Pine Bluff-area squads in the latest edition of the King Cotton Holiday Classic.

Cheryl Hatley has seen a number of outstanding female athletes come through Pine Bluff-area schools and coached a few of them herself.