Benton County News

Deputies in Benton County are investigating a fatal shooting. It happened on Wild Cherry Drive in the Prairie Creek area.

Two of the people accused in the 2006 slaying in traffic of Daniel Francis are about to go on trial in Benton County.

For some Benton County residents, buying prescription drugs they need is becoming a major challenge, and as the everyday cost of living begins to soar, many are forced to make the difficult decision between ...

School bus stops. Motorists stop. Kids get off and walk toward their homes. School bus begins moving.

Early Monday morning, thieves drove a 30, 000-pound piece of construction equipment to the Pulaski Bank on Riordan Road, then used the equipment to tear an automated teller machine from its moorings so they ...

People living in one Northwest Arkansas neighborhood could soon lose the rights to the land they live on, after the Rogers Planning Commission approved a request for rezoning on Tuesday.

Don Townsend with the Benton County Sheriff's Office announced during Thursday's Benton County Personnel Committee meeting that the BCSO is looking to hire an additional deputy to handle the program that keeps ...

Four teens face adult charges for their roles in the attempted robbery of a Wendy's in Rogers.

The rapid job growth that prompted thousands of families to move to Northwest Arkansas during the past several years has slowed significantly during the past year.

A 27-year-old Siloam Springs man, Freddy Hernandez-Naranjo, was cited for public intoxication and resisting arrest after jumping from the window of a moving car and being tasered by police.

Prosecutors filed a formal charge June 16 against a Bella Vista man accused of raping a 7-year-old girl.

Along the southern road bordering the Lost Bridge airstrip, an airplane wing is visible entangled in the trees on the steep slope.

Arbor Buchanan, an advocate supervisor for Court-Appointed Special Advocates of Northwest Arkansas, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Bella Vista Republican Women, said Deanna Ratcliffe, the ...

The latest numbers from the Arkansas Realtors Association show that home sales in Sebastian County have gone up by nearly 14% over last year.

Petitions for school board positions in Benton County can be circulated starting Wednesday, but the day those petitions can be filed is not for several more weeks.

It was no more unusual to see Ken Ramey pulling at the fabric of his red tie Tuesday night than to see him pacing the tiled floor at the Benton County Election Commission in Bentonville.

Mind you, the North Arkansas Symphony is not a mere byproduct of the area's mad-cap growth in recent decades, merely a beneficiary.

Northwest Arkansas Community College President Becky Paneitz announced that Jean Anderson has been appointed as the executive director for College At The Crossings in Bella Vista, and will assume her new ...

There's a new marshal in town. On May 27, Bella Vista Fire Chief Steve Sims was appointed as the city's first fire marshal, with the approval of an ordinance by the City Council.

A judge ruled Friday that prosecutors can present evidence of gang activity during a July trial for two young Hispanic men accused of gunning down a passenger in a car driving through Lowell in May 2006.