Marc Hayot/Siloam Sunday Ashley McFadin, 20, addresses the crowd about how her brother had to have delayed treatment due to hospitals being filled to capacit...

Attendees of Gov. Asa Hutchinson's latest talk in his "Covid Conversations" series, which was held Friday in Siloam Springs, reacted both negatively and posi...

Many people have dreams. Local resident Jessica Thompson's is daily reality as an up-and-coming artist in Siloam Springs.

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. -- Cherokee Nation, state, federal and military leaders gathered this week to tour the construction site where 21 new homes are being built ...

Marc Hayot/Herald-Leader Siloam Springs firefighters put out a demonstration fire that was used to teach 24 visiting students and professors how to use a fir...

The Illinois River Watershed Partnership will celebrate water quality month with a new Executive Director this year. Leif Kindberg assumed Nicole Hardiman's ...

Getting exercise is important, and walking is one of the easiest ways to rack up "active" minutes. The only things you'll need are a comfortable pair of shoe...

Aug. 4-6

Jeff Williams was at the first day of football practice Monday morning, but he didn't have a whistle around his neck.

Even without pads, the Siloam Springs football team turned up the intensity at the end of the first official football practice of the season.

The Siloam Springs Panthers are ranked No. 11 in Class 6A going into the 2021 football season and picked to finish fifth in the 6A-West Conference, according...

The summer has come to a close for the Siloam Springs football team.

For the 10th consecutive season, the John Brown University volleyball team has been awarded the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic ...

Siloam Springs football

Gov. Asa Hutchinson met resistance when he brought his pro-vaccine message to Siloam Springs on Friday for the latest in his series of covid conversations.

First-year Siloam Springs tennis head coach Clay Taylor is no stranger to the sport.

Joe aimed his customized JM Special dart gun, taking care not to spook his quarry. He and his partner, Bill, had tracked the target for several days, looking...

It seems after reading an op-ed piece by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the lead Republican gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 race for Arkansas's Governor, the mo...

A Big Difference

In case you have been asleep, or in a coma induced stupor over the fumes from the farm chemical dicamba, and the ongoing ecological controversy on its use in...

Most everyone agrees that today's economy is bonkers. Houses are selling above asking price and fast-food joints are handing out hundreds of dollars in signi...

Late July marks the 68th anniversary of the end of the Korean War. If he is still alive, the South Korean boy in the photo nearby is in his late seventies. H...

What difference does it make?

When I was in high school trying to write reports and term papers, I had a difficult time. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get anything to sound right...

I am continually humored by people's statements that there is no God. To make a dogmatic statement regarding any topic, the person must have proof.

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." Luke 9:23

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which m...

"Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found fa...

"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 3:11 (read 1 Corinthians 3)

Again, I was asked about the mystery of Jesus challenging Peter. Why did Jesus ask the same question three times? Let's read John 21:15-17 from the NCV.

"If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." Psalm 130:3-4

Have you ever felt like the Lord has backed away from you? You want to pray and fellowship with Him, but He seems far away? Why is that?