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Tontitown files appeal on landfill expansion permit

The City of Tontitown is in a legal effort to stop the expansion of the Eco Vista's Class 4 Landfill. It serves as Northwest Arkansas’ landfill and is running out of space. The city’s brief in support of motion for summary judgment states there is no municipal approval for the expansion.

Talkin' Tunes with Kyle and Sophia 7/2/2026

Kyle Kellams and Sophia Nourani survey live music across Northwest Arkansas.

Nayda Alvarez, a high school teacher, says Customs and Border Protection notified her that it plans to erect the security wall through her backyard. She says it will cut off her access to the Rio Grande, on whose banks her family has fished and picnicked for years.

In Starr County, Texas, Trump's Border Wall 'Still Highly Unpopular'

Some residents are deeply skeptical of the border wall, fearing it will aggravate flooding problems and cut them off culturally from the Rio Grande river that has defined this landscape.

Ganges Reveals Sublime Luxury, Polluted Wasteland

India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, as one reporter's continuing journey down the Ganges River reveals.

People don't talk about nature as much anymore. Why is that a problem?

Words related to the natural world, such as 'river,' 'moss,' and 'blossom,' have dramatically declined in English-language books over the last 200 years.

The Brave Souls take on icy waters in this College Podcast Challenge entry

A group called the "Brave Souls" plunge into icy river waters each week -- a podcast about them is a finalist in NPR's College Podcast Challenge.

KUAF Daily Newscast: Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Tune in to 91.3 FM each weekday morning for the KUAF news brief, covering the latest regional headlines from Northwest Arkansas, the Arkansas River Valley, Eastern Oklahoma and Southwestern Missouri. Listen live during Morning Edition at 5:30 and 7:30 a.m.

Biologists pile recently dead mussel shells on the edge of the Clinch River after documenting the species' number and type. The smell can get "real bad," says biologist Rose Agbalog.

Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying And Nobody Knows Why

A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has scientists scrambling to find a cause. Freshwater mussels clean water and provide habitat to countless other species.

Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, on June 7, after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. Residents of southern Ukraine, some who spent the night on rooftops, braced for days of floodwaters on as authorities warned that the dam breach on the Dnipro River would continue to unleash water from a large reservoir.

Ukraine's troops long planned their move on Russian forces. Then came the flood

Soldiers spent months making clandestine trips across Ukraine's Dnipro River to plan the counteroffensive. Instead of facing off against Russian forces, this unit found itself fighting floodwaters.

Officials in the Salmon River Central School District in Fort Covington, New York, have acknowledged that wooden boxes were constructed and used to confine elementary school children, including Native children, with disabilities. The practice was ended in December 2025 after these images, confirmed as authentic by school officials, circulated on social media. In a new report, New York's state has ordered sweeping reforms at the public school.

Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are coming

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

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