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Texas A&M football plays Arkansas on Oct. 18, 2025 at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Here are score-by-score updates, TV info and more.

West Virginia's largest one-day outdoor festival drew more than 100,000 people to Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia on Oct. 18, 2025 to walk on the 876-foot-high deck of the state's iconic New River Gorge Bridge and watch hundreds of parachutists descend to the shoreline below.

Bragg Boulevard has reopened on Thursday afternoon between Pearl Street and Stamper Road in Fayetteville as police investigate a deadly crash.

A group of Northwest Arkansas residents will travel more than 30 miles by foot during a three-day pilgrimage from Bentonville to Fayetteville starting Thursday in an effort to raise funds and awareness for chronic homelessness.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A fiery crash in Cumberland County left one person dead and a car engulfed in flames. The incident occurred late Thursday night near Fayetteville on Seabrook School Road near Macedonia Church. Video footage from the scene shows the car collided with a tree.

The first quarter in Fayetteville came out smoking — literally and figuratively — but it’s the Aggies who’ve got the better aroma right now. Arkansas struck first with a 22-yard field goal after a 71-yard drive that looked more like a hog stampede than an opening statement.

Mountain superstitions of the Arkansas Ozarks, folk Catholicism and Mexican mythology collide in Jacquelin Zazueta's "Doily," a visual art show on display now through Nov. 8 at Pond Gallery just off the square downtown Fayetteville.

Fayetteville Technical Community College's Spring Lake campus was placed on lockdown for about an hour Monday after college leaders got a report of a shooter.

A Northwest Arkansas woman has filed a lawsuit against four Arkansas State Troopers after they allegedly pointed guns at her and her child and detained them at a Fayetteville gas station, according to court documents.

A Fayetteville family is without transportation after their car was stolen twice, the second time ending in a high-speed chase and crash that totaled the vehicle.