Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutlege announed today the the Attorney General's Mobile Office will me in Mena June 25th from 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at the Polk County Senior Center lo...

    SHERIFF’S   LOG The following information was received from Polk County Sheriff Scott Sawyer for the week of May 13 - May 19, 2019.  The charges against t...

  Mena Police Department Reports for the Week of May 12, 2019 through May 18, 2019    May 12, 2019   Report was made of someone vandalizing a gate on a local propert...

In Arkansas, 41% of the population live in rural counties. In contrast, only 14% of the United States population as a whole live in nonmetropolitan counties. Our state is a very rural one, so when we ...

Saturday, May 18th is Pioneer Day at Queen Wilhelmina State Park near Mena starting at 10:00 am for 5 hours at the Wonder House. There will be Dutch Oven Cooking, Making Butter, Making Candl...

Governor Hutchinson's Weekly Radio Address: The Plan for Broadband   To listen to the Governor's radio address, click anywhere on this line, then click the play botton, or you ...

Gratitude for Our Service Members   While it may seem like the members of the U.S. Senate—much like America itself—are strongly divided on issues of national policy, I can say w...

State Capitol Week in Review From Senator Larry Teague May 17, 2019   LITTLE ROCK – The goal of the new Arkansas State Broadband Plan, announced by the governor, is to make high-sp...

Lottery ticket sales in Arkansas for the so called Scholarship Lottery were $42,773,997.00 for the month of April 2019.   The highest sales were in Pulaski County at $7,906,466.50. The lowe...

All criminal information is merely an accusation and the Defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Prosecuting Attorney Andy Riner, within and for the 18th-West Judicial Dist...

Jimmie Wayne Lemon January 26, 1931 - May 19, 2019   Jimmie Wayne Lemon, age 88, of Mena, Arkansas died Sunday, May 19, 2019 at his home. He...

James Lewis Faulkner, better known by his loved ones as “Jimmy”, “Dad”, or “Papa”, passed away on May 19, 2019, at the age of 79, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith.&n...

Judy Kaye Cannon age 73 of Mena, Arkansas passed away Friday, May 17, 2019 at the Mena Regional Health System. She was born on July 26, 1945 to the late Owen and Helen Philpot of Mena, Arkansas. ...

Sebarn Harrison “Jr.”, formerly of Mena, went to be with his Heavenly Father on May 14, 2019. Junior loved his family, but most of all he loved and dedicated his life to his Lord and Sa...

Suedell “Sue” James, lovingly known as Momma and Granny, age 74 of Watson, Oklahoma passed away Monday, May 13, 2019 in Watson, Oklahoma. Granny was born on July 20, 1944 in Mena, Ark...