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Temporary full road closure scheduled for Bull Shoals Dam

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (KAIT) - Drivers who use Highway 178 over Bull Shoals Dam will need will need an alternate route Tuesday through Thursday, Nov. 17-19. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled a full road closure across the dam Tuesday through Thursday, Nov. 17-19, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Bull Shoals, AR · 20h

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Former jail nurse pleads to reduced charges

A former nurse at the Baxter County Detention Center charged with making inappropriate sexual contacts with female inmates pled guilty to reduced charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division Monday. Forty-two-year-old Samuel Sparks had initially been charged with three counts of sexual assault. He pled guilty to...

Baxter County, AR · 6h

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Mountain Home searching for funding for $100 million to $120 million water intake

Mountain Home has the permits, the engineers and a barge on the lake for a new water intake on Norfork Lake. What it does not have yet is the $100 million to $120 million to build it. That figure, which Mayor Hillrey Adams gave during his annual report to the...

Mountain Home, AR · 10h

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Izard County Sheriff’s Office Weekly Incarceration Report

According to Sheriff Charley Melton, the following individuals were incarcerated last week. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. Vasquez Martinez, 32 of Batesville, was arrested on November 2nd for Ice. Polaris Hendrix, 58 of Horseshoe Bend, was arrested on November 4th for disorderly conduct. Brittney Garner,...

Izard County, AR · 1d

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Mayor and County Judge address Mountain Home State of the City and Baxter County

On Monday morning at the “State of the City” and the “State of the County” breakfast held on the campus of ASU Mountain Home, community leaders, business owners and residents heard an update from Mountain Home Mayor Hillrey Adams and Baxter County Judge Kevin Litty. The...

Mountain Home, AR · 1d

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Heber Springs Woman, 55, Killed in Van Buren County Crash

A 55-year-old Heber Springs woman has died following a single-vehicle crash Friday afternoon, November 6, on State Highway 124 in rural Van Buren County. Arkansas State Police identified the woman as Mary Couch, 55, of Heber Springs. According to Arkansas State Police Fatal Crash Summary #410, the crash happened at...

Heber Springs, AR · 2d

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Sheriff: Reports on dogs at Melbourne home forwarded to prosecuting attorney

MELBOURNE, Ark. (KAIT) - The Izard County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that it has forwarded all reports about dogs at a Melbourne home to the prosecuting attorney’s office for review. Sheriff Charley Melton addressed social media posts about dogs at a home on Sheffield Drive in a statement...

Melbourne, AR · 2d

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Mountain View Art Walk Around the Square Set for Nov. 13-14

Downtown Mountain View will become a celebration of Arkansas creativity, craftsmanship and live music as the Arkansas Craft School presents its 3rd Annual Art Walk Around the Square on Friday and Saturday, November 13–14, 2026. The Mountain View Arkansas Art Walk runs from 10 AM to 4 PM each...

Mountain View, AR · 19h

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Hollingsworth picks coroner Sam Seamans as chief deputy

Baxter County Sheriff-elect Mark Hollingsworth has chosen County Coroner Sam Seamans to serve as his chief deputy when he takes office in January, Hollingsworth announced Sunday. The move returns Seamans to full-time law enforcement after a year running the coroner’s office and caps a 40-year career that has run through...

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Community center tops 133,000 visits, 6,000 memberships in first season

More than 133,000 people have walked through the doors of the Mountain Home Community and Aquatic Center since it opened in May, Mayor Hillrey Adams told the Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce on Monday. Memberships stood at about 6,000 through October, Adams said during his annual State of the...

Mountain Home, AR · 10h

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State Chamber chief says Baxter County’s low workforce participation is an opportunity, not a problem

Fewer than 44 out of every 100 working-age Baxter County residents hold a job or are looking for one, and the head of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce told a Mountain Home audience Monday that number should catch the eye of any employer looking to expand. “This is a...

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MH Planning Commission to address approval of rezoning areas Monday

The Mountain Home Planning Commission will meet on Monday at 1 p.m. in the city council chambers of the Municipal Building. In new business, Commissioners are to discuss the approval of a rezoning from commercial C-2 to commercial C-2C, located at the corner of East 16th Street and Glenbriar in Mountain Home. The petitioner is Thomas Embach and the presentation will be by Ted Sanders.

Mountain Home, AR · 2d

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Bombers blast Rams in season opener

The Mountain Home Bombers finished off Paragould with a 15-0 run in the second half and ran to a 58-40 victory over the Rams in the season opener for both teams Monday night at The Hangar. Mountain Home scored the game’s first eight points, and the Bombers kept the Rams...

Mountain Home, AR · 1d

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City of Mountain Home to consider economical ordinance preservation transition

The Mountain Home City Council will transition to a more economical method of preserving municipal ordinances beginning Jan. 1, 2027, as the city’s traditional metal-bound ordinance books become increasingly expensive and difficult to maintain. City Clerk Scott Liles suggested the proposed change during the council’s Nov. 5, meeting, explaining...

Mountain Home, AR · 11h

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Two Mountain Home residents have been arrested in Baxter County.

45-year-old James Lane and 46-year-old Amy Lane were both arrested on Friday. James Lane is charged with failure to comply with registration and reporting requirements, an incorrect address on a sex offender ID card, parole violation, and a revocation of a bench warrant. Amy Lane is charged with two counts of felony possession of drug paraphernalia, hindering apprehension, and endangering the welfare of a minor. Both are being held in the Baxter County Detention Center with bond set at $15,000 each.

Baxter County, AR · 2d

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Marion County Quorum Court meets Tuesday evening

The Marion County Quorum Court will meet in regular session on Tuesday evening with an agenda that will handle accounting matters as the county looks to the end of 2026. The meeting will be held in the Marion County Courthouse starting at 6:30 and the public is invited to attend.

Marion County, AR · 1d

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Norfork High School students take first place in AGFC culinary competition

The second annual Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) Generation Conservation Summit took place last week at the Hot Springs Convention Center in Bank OZK Arena. Jovee Webster, Adelynn Lubbock and Phineas Bitting from Norfork High School won the culinary division of the Arkansas Game and Fish Generation Conservation Summit sponsored by Buc-ees.

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ASUMH names new dean, adds two workforce development positions

Arkansas State University-Mountain Home has restructured the leadership of its School of Technology and Health Sciences, naming a nurse practitioner with a doctorate as dean and creating two workforce development posts aimed at local employers. Dr. Jess Camp is the new dean of technology and health sciences and director of...

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Early Saturday fire damages home on Cardinal Drive

The Mountain Home Fire Department responded to a house fire on 1150 North Cardinal Drive at 6:22 Saturday morning. The origin of the fire was in the living room of the home, however all occupants were alerted by working smoke alarms and were able to exit the house safely. Mountain...

Mountain Home, AR · 2d

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Mountain Home youth golfer wins U.S. Kids Golf Foundation NW Arkansas Tour

A Mountain Home youth golfer has won a title in a six-tournament tour in northwest Arkansas. Nine-year-old Charlie Barton dominated the U.S. Kids Golf Foundation Northwest Arkansas Local Tour by winning all six tournaments. Barton won the first tournament Aug. 16 at Bella Vista Country Club. He followed that up...

Mountain Home, AR · 6h

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