On the third week of the 2023 Regular Session, the House passed legislation that could impact everything from car tags to the start of the school year.   HB1150 which would extend the time ...

Expanding Arkansas’s National Security Role   Protecting the United States and our interests is a fundamental responsibility for the federal government. Our founders made this role cl...

Getting Back To Our Roots   This week, for the first time in almost seven years, the House considered legislation under a modified open rule, taking us one huge step closer to restoring a tru...

State Capitol Week in Review From Senator Terry Rice January 27, 2023   LITTLE ROCK – The first three weeks of the 2023 legislative have session have been remarkable for the wide v...

SHERIFF’S LOG   The following information was received from Polk County Sheriff Scott Sawyer for the week of January 16, 2023 – January 22, 2023. The charges against those arres...

  Mena Police Department reports for the week of January 15th through January 21st, 2023   All subjects should be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.  ...

A Proclamation on Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Monterey Park, California   As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on January ...

This is the first in a series of articles that will be shared on KAWX.ORG, written and submitted by Kathy Hagler of the local James K. Polk Chpater of the National Society Daughters of the American Re...

House members will enter the third week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday.   In the second week, several bills passed the House and are now making their way to the Senate.   ...

Recipe for Reaching Children in Need    Americans have long called on Washington to cut inefficiencies in federal programs and modernize them for the 21st century. Yet rarely, are...

Mrs. Hannah Madge Jones, age 92, passed away in Mena, Arkansas on Friday, January 27, 2023. She was born May 5, 1930, in Hancock County, Tennessee to the late Lon Collins and Cecil McGinnis Collin...

Mr. Bill Gene Powell, age 71, passed away Sunday, January 22, 2023, in Waldron, Arkansas. He was born December 3, 1951, in Senora, California to William Junior Powell and Nancy Pearl Chambers Powe...

Mr. Lee Roy Stokes, age 78, of Mena, Arkansas, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, January 22, 2023. Mr. Stokes was born December 9, 1944, in Hatfield, Arkansas to the late J.C. Stokes and Emma Lo...

Mrs. Patsy Ann Hill Powell, age 74, of Mena, Arkansas passed away on Friday, January 20, 2023, at her home. She was born on Monday, December 20, 1948, to Herman Hill and Julia Ann Knox Hill in Blackfo...

Carolyn Faye Lowery, age 72, of Mena, died Sunday, January 22, 2023 at Baptist Health in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She was born on Friday, June 9, 1950 to Milton Hanford Simmons and Stella Mae Rickner Sim...