Following are news brief items from the Fort Smith metro. Toy Toss The return of the UAFS Toy Toss will be 6 p.m., Nov. 18 at ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Frontier. This story is co-published with Grist, which contributed to its development. In January 2020, Danny ...

In January 2020, Danny Ray started a complicated job with the Oklahoma agency that regulates oil and gas. The petroleum engineer who’d spent more than 40 years in the oil fields had been hired to help ...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s ...

Drought conditions across the North Country have had all kinds of impacts. They range from scorched, patchy grass to one Essex County community banning all non-essential water use. The drought has ...

JASPER, Texas — As the sun rose over the swampy brown waters of B.A. Steinhagen Lake on Sept. 13, four veterans and their support crews loaded boats in anticipation of a weekend filled with adrenaline ...

This weekend, students from Cobb Middle School partnered with Keep Tallahassee Beautiful to clean up Elberta Lake Pond. Have a news tip or see an error? Write to us here. Please include the article’s ...

STAKES. IF THAT POLLUTION SPREADS DOWNSTREAM. YOU CAN SEE ALL THE TREES ARE DEAD RIGHT HERE. ALL THE GRASS, THE WEEDS. THEY’RE ALL DEAD. MIKE LOLA IS A RANCHER IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA NEAR EAKLY. HE SAYS ...

A Maryville man died in a boating incident Sept. 12 on Fort Loudoun Lake, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reported. Terry Alexander, 63, drowned near the mouth of George’s Creek in Louisville, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is investigating the death of a Maryville man on Fort Loudoun Lake Friday morning. TWRA said it received a call around 11:15 a.m. for a ...

STORY. IT’S LABOR DAY WEEKEND. IT’S DEFINITELY A BUSY ONE TO BE OUT ON THE WATER, RIGHT? WELL, HAVING MORE PEOPLE HERE AROUND THE BOAT RAMP YESTERDAY IS PART OF WHY TROOPERS SAY THAT MAN WAS ABLE TO ...