Saline County has partnered with Recycle Saline, City of Benton, City of Bryant, Keep Bryant Beautiful, Saline River Canoe, Saline County Justices of the Peace, and many others to host a county-wide cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

R.J. Daniel Hanna is the latest filmmaker from Arkansas to have his movie hit big screens nationwide. 

The late Bruce Ario was a Minneapolis writer whose story is as interesting as the work he created. 

Record Store Day is an international event to celebrate independently owned record stores around the globe. 

The Saline County Quorum Court unanimously approved a resolution on Monday stating its opposition to the Arkansas Right to Abortion Initiative. 

On Monday morning, April 15, Dominic Schweikle and Piper Partridge, the parents of the late Keagan Schweikle, for the third time, filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in response to US District Judge Brian Miller’s decision to vacate the $32 million ve…

On a dark, rainy January morning in 2022, Daniel Barajas was killed after being struck by three vehicles on Interstate 30 in Saline County. 

Alan Yeargan, an artist with a profound aspiration to capture the essence of the shared human experience through his art, states , “My goal is to create a dialogue without words, that seeks to resonate with anyone who gives my art their time.” In his artist statement, he expresses his commit…

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.

US District Judge Brian Miller vacated the $32 million verdicts against the Benton Police Department and former Police Chief Kirk Lane on Tuesday.

Benton Police Department arrested a 15-year-old boy in relation to a threat directed at Benton Junior High School, according to a department news release.

LITTLE ROCK — Gov.Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered the State of the State Address after the convening of the 94th General Assembly Fiscal Session on Wednesday in Little Rock.

Benton Police Chief Scotty Hodges was recorded in a video posted to YouTube on Monday discussing the civil trial where a jury found the City of Benton and former Police Chief Kirk Lane liable for $32 million for the officer-involved 2016 shooting death of then 17-year-old Keagan Schweikle. 

U.S. District Judge Brian Miller has vacated the verdicts against the City of Benton and Kirk Lane in the civil suit brought by Piper Partridge and Dominic Schweikle surrounding the officer-involved death of their 17 year old son Keagan Schweikle. After the trial, a jury found the City of Be…

Benton Police Chief Scotty Hodges was recorded in a video posted to YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usm2fG47-aM, on Monday discussing the civil trial in which a jury found the City of Benton and former police chief Kirk Lane liable for $32 million for the officer-involved 2016 shoot…

The Bryant City Council will have a workshop tonight to discuss the park’s master plan. 

Benton City Councilman Shane Knight has been hired as the new president and CEO of the Greater Bryant Chamber of Commerce.

Incumbent Saline County Justice of the Peace Barbara Howell was defeated in Tuesday's runoff election by challenger Keith Kellum.

The Benton Planning Commission will consider items for a convenience store at Exit 114, during a meeting starting at 6 p.m. tonight.

Today is the final day to vote in the Primary Election runoff which features contests between two Saline County candidates.

Dan Schneider is a multidisciplinary artist. He is a poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, author, and art critic.

Voting is open for the Readers' Choice 2024 contest.  Vote for all of your favorite Saline County businesses.  You can vote once per day in each subcategory so come back often and show our local businesses how much we appreciate them.  Voting continues until April 20, at 11:50 pm.  VOTE HERE

On the last day of hunting season, Dec. 31, 2022, William Bettis was hunting in the woods near his home and he thought he saw a deer through his scope. 

During a Benton City Council meeting on Monday, four police officers were recognized for their life-saving actions on Jan. 13. 

Attorneys for the family of a teenager fatally shot by a Benton Police officer in 2016 responded Monday to the city’s  request to have a $30 million verdict against Benton dismissed.

The Administrative Office of the Courts presented a $22,562 award to the Saline County Adult Drug Court on March 13. Officials from the AOC presented the award to Circuit Court Judge Ken Casady, Saline County Drug Court officer Becca Hines, and Deputy Attorney Macy Grace Daughtry. AOC offici…

There is a new Mayor in town in Bryant. Former Bryant Parks Director Chris Treat was sworn into his new role on Friday afternoon from Bryant City Hall by District Judge Stephanie Casady. Treat is not settling in to his new role. In fact, getting comfortable in the job isn’t one of his object…

Recent court documents show that Bryant Alderman Jason Brown, and his representing attorney, do not want to dismiss the defamation lawsuit they brought against Courtney park following a video she released during Brown's failed mayoral campaign

The Benton School Board picked Boyd Goodner to replace former board member Jarrod Hambric last night. Goodner graduated from Benton School District in 2000 and has lived in Benton for over 30 years.

The United States House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that ask TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the popular social media app or it will be banned in the United States. The bill now heads to the Senate. The bill passed the House with a bipartisan vote of 352-65.

The goal to restore the historic Old River Bridge to its original location, a project that has been in the works for nearly 20 years had its groundbreaking on Monday. With the restoration, the Saline River will be home to the oldest bridge in Arkansas that remains in its original location. 

Bryant will soon have its third Mayor in nearly six months.  Parks Director and now Mayor-elect Chris Treat defeated Alderman Jason Brown in Tuesday night’s special election. Treat will succeed interim Mayor Rhonda Sanders who replaced former Mayor Allen Scott who resigned last September aft…

Super Tuesday was a good night to be an incumbent on the Saline County Quorum Court.

Benton School Board President Paul Childress defeated Ken Yang in the Republican Primary for the District 83 State House Seat. Childress will face Democratic nominee Teresa Dannaway for the open seat this November. The seat for District 83 in the Arkansas State House of Representatives has o…

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Saline County, AR-The Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Old River Bridge has been delayed to 10 a.m. on March 11. It had previously been scheduled for Thursday, March 7 at 10:00 a.m.

Jarrod Hambric resigned from the Benton School Board effective Feb. 13. 

On Monday afternoon, Courtney Park and her representing attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought against her by Bryant Alderman and Mayoral candidate Jason Brown.

Today is the last day of early voting in the 2024 primary elections. 

With the forthcoming restoration of the Old River Bridge, the Saline River will be home to oldest bridge in Arkansas that remains in it’s original location. To celebrate the historic moment in Saline County, the county has announced they will be hosting a groundbreaking event at 10 a.m. on M…

An alleged burglar was shot by a Saline County homeowner Tuesday, according to the Saline County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities have captured the man who escaped Monday from Rivendell Behavioral Health Services in Benton, according to the Benton Police Department.

The Benton Athletic Museum’s board of directors hosted the 28th annual Wall of Fame Banquet to a sold-out crowd on Saturday evening at the Benton High School Cafeteria. 

A Bauxite High School employee was arrested Thursday on charges of providing controlled substances to a student, among other charges, according to a press release from the Saline County Sheriff's Office.

Raeden Greer, a Benton High School graduate, filmmaker, and actress, will be offering an acting class at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts this Spring, hosted in partnership with the Arkansas Cinema Society starting on March 27 and running for six weeks through May 1. 

A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to data from Downdetector.

A Bryant man was sentenced on Tuesday to 40 years in prison for possessing child pornography, Prosecuting Attorney Chris Walton announced Wednesday.