Multi-instrumentalist and bluesman Jontavious Willis is coming back to the Walton Arts Center next month.

Walmart AMP officials have added two new movies to the Saturday Cinema series at the venue.

The exhibit challenges viewers to contemplate their interactions with nature – but also to make them.

It has been a challenging year for many, but do you know what is not challenging at all? Free ice cream. That's what.

Live music and more happening in and around Fayetteville for the weekend of Sept. 11-13. 2020.

Crystal Bridges has added a new piece to its permanent collection.

Crawford County Library System director to retire after storied career Eva White led libraries for 20 years

Our adventure began at the Powers Port Canoe Access on Riverfront Drive. The Water Trail is just another great way to enjoy Fort Smith’s scenic riverfront.

After a year on the job, Daniel Mann can quickly point out the remaining marketable parcels of Chaffee Crossing. But there's still much for the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority to do, says its executive director.

Katie Waugh is on her way to Arkansas! Katie is an artist and educator who recently accepted the position as head of the art department at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. The department offers degrees in graphic design and studio art, with minors available in studio art and art history. She took time to talk over the phone while she was driving her packed RV across the plains of Indiana.Katie, give us some background information about yourself. [...]

This year marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women in the U.S. the right to vote. Although 49% of Americans say granting women the right to vote has been the most important milestone in advancing the position of the women in the country, a majority of Americans say the country still hasn’t gone far enough in giving women equal rights with men. Covering a broad range of topics on women, feminism and gender equality, here are a few [...]

On Labor Day, Kevin Kinard, a 33-year-old bank branch manager from Maumelle, visited Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park and found the second-largest diamond found in the park’s history.Kinard has visited the Crater of Diamonds fairly regularly since first going there on a second-grade field trip, despite having never found a diamond. This trip was to turn out differently.Kinard and his friends brought equipment with them to wet sift, but Kinard preferred [...]

Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****Sept. 21 was a huge day for the Xbox family.Microsoft picked the day that preorders for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S next-gen consoles went live to announce that it has reached a deal to acquire ZeniMax Media, the owner of one of the world’s largest third-party video game developers in Bethesda Softworks.The deal includes all eight of Bethesda Softworks’s development studios, Bethesda Game Studios, [...]

This week’s four-pack features a pair of documentaries, some most-excellent ’80s nostalgia and an endearing rom-com. Skip or stream? Read and find out:“Stuntwomen - The Untold Hollywood Story”: April Wright’s documentary gives female stunt performers their due with a behind-the-scenes look at the “invisible” women powering up the action sequences that make your heart pound and jaw drop. Footage includes these memorable scenes: Donna Keegan [...]

Somewhere east of “Frog and Toad” and west of “The Odd Couple” live Skunk and Badger, as mismatched a pair of musteloids as you’ll ever find in North Twist.Badger likes to hunker down with his hammers and safety glasses, doing important rock work with his quartzes and tourmaline pegmatites. The livelier Skunk bounces and skips, and invites all the neighborhood chickens over for storytime.How did they become housemates? More importantly, will they stay [...]