Benton News

The Saline County Regional Solid Waste Management District provides the landfill for five cities across the area.

Welcome to yet another installment in our soon-to-be-ridiculously-famous Awesome Site of the Week series.

The Big Movers Construction storytime party is set for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 18 at Boswell Library in Bryant and 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 20 at Herzfeld Library in Benton.

One man was hurt as he and his family were getting their bikes worked Saturday morning in Benton.

The Benton Police Department announced that someone - or a group of fiendish someones - destroyed nine of the new crepe myrtle trees that were added as part of the city's revitalization project on South Street.

Public safety jobs in Benton could be at stake if they don't find a way to balance their budget by this fall.

The Spreading Anne's Wings organization will host the "I SAW Hope" Family Fun Night on Saturday at War Memorial Stadium.

Saline County Moose Lodge 2567 will host its annual Buddy Carter Rib Cook-Off Saturday, June 8, at the lodge, located just off Interstate 30, 12 miles southwest of Benton.

On Thursday, May 23, 2013, The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted to accept, as apart of a real estate transaction with First Security bank, a parcel of land owned by the Benton School District.

Back in September 2011, First Arkansas News aired the first episode of Wikipedia Brown - a bit of modern audio theater that was a blatant rip off of Encyclopedia Brown and featured a teen detective who got simple facts terribly wrong.

A picnic table along the banks of the Saline River behind Riverside Gro. on Hwy.

Benton Matters, which is part of the Benton Area Chamber of Commerce's Go Benton initiative, will clean up trash and yard debris on Edison Avenue on June 8 from 8-11 a.m. Benton Matters was formed this year for the purpose of identifying parts of town that need to be cleaned up and organize volunteers to spend a few hours picking up trash and ... (more)

Benton and Bryant fire departments are going head-to-head for a blood-drive competition.

As our tens of fans have no doubt noticed, First Arkansas News has gone through a few changes lately.

Back in September 2011, First Arkansas News aired the first episode of Wikipedia Brown - a bit of modern audio theater that was a blatant rip off of Encyclopedia Brown and featured a teen detective who got simple facts terribly wrong.

The Benton Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a missing person.

The National Weather Service in Little Rock has issued a Flood Advisory for the Saline River at Benton until Wednesday evening.

New Beginnings Pregnancy Resource Center has scheduled an open house for Monday, May 20 from 10 .m. to 6 p.m. at 120 S. Conrad Street in Benton.

The man who last month allegedly shot himself on a stranger's front lawn on Millbrook Cove in Benton was arrested Friday, following his release from a local hospital.