Dierks News

LITTLE ROCK --- To commemorate Veterans Day the Little Rock District of the Army Corps of Engineers will join Corps districts nationwide and waive day use fees at its recreation areas Nov.

A seven-foot-nine-inch alligator found its way up a road behind a Weyerhaeuser mill in Dierks, Ark., far north of where such creatures usually make their homes.

Law Enforcement in Sevier County, Arkansas is reporting hail the size of golf balls along the Saline River along the border of Sevier and Howard Counties around 3 AM Thursday Morning.

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 132 PM CDT TUE MAY 12 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL HEMPSTEAD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES ...

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 613 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL RED RIVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS... CENTRAL MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN ...

A funny thing happened on this Twitter thing on April Fool's Day, appropriately.

Five Arkansas Air National Guard Airmen restored clean water to the Dierks community April 21 following an April 9 tornado that destroyed the town's water treatment plant April 9. The Airmen from the 188th Fighter Wing's Civil Engineer Squadron helped the small Southwest Arkansas town by using two water treatment units, known as reverse osmosis ...

Technical Sgt. William Kendrick turns on the main valve to begin moving water through a water purification unit the Arkansas Air National Guard deployed to the small Southwest Arkansas community of Dierks on Tuesday.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is to visit Arkansas to announce government grants to cover repairs from tornadoes, floods and severe storms that cut through the state last year.

What a week it has been for the city of Dierks. The population is about 1,200. City officials have come up with different ways to provide water to residents, but they must conserve and it will be at least two to three months before things are completely back to normal.

A team of five Arkansas Air National Guard airmen from the 188th Civil Engineering Squadron restored clean water yesterday to this small southwestern Arkansas community following an April 9 tornado that destroyed the town's water treatment plant.