The Forrest City City Council failed to take action on the city’s proposed budget for 2025 during Tuesday’s council meeting. The council’s budget committee held its first meeting last week to discuss ...

Buildings on the Forrest City Junior High School campus were broken into overnight on Sunday and again on Monday. Reports on file at the Forrest City Police Department show the first incident was ...

The Palestine-Wheatley Elementary School was recently awarded a grant from the Arkansas Forestry Commission through its S.T.O.P. (Shade Trees on Playgrounds) program, resulting in five new trees being ...

The Palestine-Wheatley Elementary School was recently awarded a grant from the Arkansas Forestry Commission through its S.T.O.P. (Shade Trees on ...

Smokey Bear was among the special visitors attending the Lee County Christmas in the Park on Saturday at Mississippi River ...

Smokey Bear was among the special visitors attending the Lee County Christmas in the Park on Saturday at Mississippi River State Park. Smokey and a youngster are pictured near a Christmas tree in the ...

Meeting recently, members of the St. Francis County Quorum Court’s budget committee discussed changes they believe need to be made to the county’s budget for next year. Some of the changes include ...

Mallory and Carla Nimocks recently donated a building and a plot of land to the St. Francis Area Developmental Center. The building was dedicated to the Nimocks family during a ceremony on Thursday, ...

Statistics from the Electrical Safety Foundation International show that 260 house fires begin with Christmas trees each year, resulting in 12 deaths, 24 injuries and about $16.4 million in property ...

director, and Rose Ballard, outreach director.