DATA CENTER ON THE HORIZON? — The first slide of a presentation hints of a proposed data center that would be located about 5 miles south of Arkadelphia at the Southwest Arkansas Mega Site in Gum Springs. | arkadelphian.com photo by Joel Phelps By JOEL PHELPS | arkadelphian.com A data center could very well be coming to Clark County, Arkansas, following a vote Thursday, April 16, to sell the entire Southwest Arkansas Mega Site to an unnamed buyer. In a 90-minute special-called meeting of the Economic Development Corp. of Clark County, board members gave their unanimous approval to sell the…
From the OBU News Bureau Ouachita Baptist University will host its 16th annual Stepping Up for Ouachita luncheon, presented by Citizens Bank, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, at Chenal Country Club in Little Rock. Doors open at 10:45 a.m., with lunch service beginning at 11:30 a.m. Ticket and sponsorship information is available at obu.edu/steppingup. The event will raise money for scholarships and honor four women: Dr. Kathy (Chapman) Collins, formerly of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, being honored posthumously; Julie (Hendrix) Dodge of Conway, Arkansas; Susan (Shambarger) Goss of Bentonville, Arkansas; and Cheryl (Bass) Williams of Roland, Arkansas. What began in 2010 as a…
THE MAN COMES AROUND — J.D. Windham, former CEO of an ambulance company that last week yielded its operations in two South Arkansas counties to Pafford EMS, addresses members of the Clark County Quorum Court in a meeting in early 2026. Windham now works for Pafford after a year-long battle with that company for a Clark County contract. | arkadelphian.com file photo By JOEL PHELPS | arkadelphian.com Let bygones be bygones. That was the message that came across as J.D. Windham and Jamie Pafford Gresham addressed the Clark County Quorum Court on Monday. Before Valor EMS ceased operations last week,…
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office-Eastern District of Missouri Three men from Texas have admitted stealing controlled substances from three pharmacies in Missouri and Kansas last year. Erik Dewayne Lyons Jr., 21, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substance and entering a pharmacy with the intent to steal controlled substances. Jonathan Fore, 30, and Anthony Ray Venwright, 33, pleaded guilty on March 30 to the same charges. https://arkadelphian.com/2025/08/02/4-houston-men-jailed-in-clark-county-following-st-louis-pharmacy-burglary/ All three admitted traveling from the Houston, Texas area to Lee’s Summit, Missouri, on July 29, 2025, in a…
The credit was $375 when Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders took office in 2023, and lawmakers have approved multiple increases that have raised the amount to $600
How well can a nation based on being a representative democracy and a free market economy function when a majority of its citizens say their countrymen are immoral? We may find out in the coming decades.
Arkansas’ strawberry crop is not only looking good, but is also running a little early this year
Several Arkansas residents have reported receiving calls from individuals identifying themselves as “Officer Jackson” with ICAC and demanding a return call regarding an alleged investigation
The increase was likely due to a combination of factors, including excellent weather during the hunt, a few strong years of reproduction and an increase in the number of adult gobblers on the landscape
Ouachita Baptist University students have teamed up with the Arkansas Foodbank to study awareness about food resources in Clark County
Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, has been selected as a featured leader in the CEO Perspectives on Community Development Finance series
The Ben M. Elrod Center for Family & Community recently announced it has awarded a total of $6,900 through its 2025-2026 Elrod Service Enrichment Grants
Flowers are blooming, days are growing longer, and Arkansas bears are on the move
The 2026 Arkansas peach crop was likely eliminated during a mid-March weather event that saw freezing temperatures in the low 20s across the state
The event will take place at Third Street Baptist Church
One big difference between a president’s typical State of the Union address and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ State of the State address April 8 is this: What the governor proposed will actually happen.
The following incidents were gathered from reports filed April 6-12, 2026, at the Arkadelphia Police Department and Clark County Sheriff’s Office
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia
Some lawmakers are hoping their colleagues will consider their non-budgetary bills during the fiscal session that began last week
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the availability of low interest federal disaster loans to small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in Arkansas to offset economic losses caused by drought beginning Nov. 1, 2025
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said her plans to call a special session to cut income taxes depend on lawmakers sticking to her proposed budget and limiting spending
Spikes in energy prices caused by the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran drove up inflation for Americans in March, according to the latest consumer price index figures released Friday
Goza Middle School has announced the following students to the Honor Roll for the third nine weeks of the 2025-2026 academic school year
Fletcher, who has been on staff at Delta State University since 2013, replaces Brett Shockley, who was recently hired as the head football coach at El Dorado High School
“It is the profound division in the body politic that prevents the legislative branch of the greatest country this world has ever known, that prevents that legislative body from doing its most basic function,” he said in Springdale Wednesday. “And then you have to ask, ‘How did we get here?’ …
Arkadelphia High School announced the Honor Roll for the third nine weeks of the 2025-2026 academic school year
The year was 1972. The 3-man Apollo 16 crew of astronauts were minutes away from re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere following an 11-day journey to the moon and back. Meanwhile, in the Pacific Ocean about midway between the U.S. and Australia, a 21-year-old James Phelps was wrapping up a semi-mandatory 2-year stint in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Ticonderoga aircraft carrier.
Schools throughout Arkansas are invited to engage with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Generation Conservation Summit in Hot Springs this fall
Unlike many GOP nomination fights, the race for secretary of state wasn’t a battle over how far right the candidates could go. Neither Hammer nor Norris could be viewed as a moderate or “Republican in Name Only.”
Today let’s talk about two independents who were on Arkansas’ March 3 ballot – one explicitly independent, one functionally so. The explicit one lost badly. The functional one won easily.
Forty-four students have been selected for inclusion in the 2026 edition of Who’s Who at Arkansas Tech University
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia
The community is invited to view a Special Collections exhibition and reception featuring selections from the Jane Ross Collection
The celebration will feature live music from Los MX, a variety of authentic taco trucks, and a Kids Zone — complete with a Ferris wheel, bounce houses, temporary tattoos, and a piñata zone
Clark County Judge Troy Tucker has issued a burn ban for Clark County effective Wednesday, March 25, 2026
A data center could very well be coming to Clark County, Arkansas, following a vote Thursday, April 16, to sell the entire Southwest Arkansas Mega Site to an unnamed buyer
The Arkansas Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (ADLEST) announced the graduation of Class 2026-A from the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy (ALETA) in Camden
